Okta is a company focused on securing identities in the era of AI. They are seeking a Senior Developer Support Engineer to support customers with their Customer Identity SaaS solution, manage support tickets, and ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
Responsibilities:
- Support and maintain customers who have implemented the Customer Identity SaaS solution, resolving technical and non-technical customer issues in a timely fashion
- Operational management of Support tickets
- Build and maintain excellent relationships with clients and achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction
- Take end-to-end ownership of customer issues, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root cause and issue resolution
- Exceed customer expectations on response quality, timeliness of responses and overall customer experience
- Serve as internal and external point of contact on customer issues and ensure they are resolved as expediently as possible
- Work as part of our extended support team in a startup atmosphere, doing whatever it takes to exceed customer expectations
- Use your business and technical analysis skills and knowledge of the Development lifecycle to solve complex issues and promote best practices
- Collaborate with other departments in the company to achieve customer satisfaction
- Contribute to and maintain repository of product area specific knowledge and promote a culture of team knowledge sharing and collaboration within Support
Requirements:
- 5 years+ of technical support and/or software development OR 3 years+ of solid experience in a business or technical analyst role for medium to large scale business software implementation projects
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Self-starter — able to come up to speed on complex, difficult concepts with minimal assistance
- Ability to quickly context-switch between multiple complex work streams
- Instinctive ability to subdivide problems into basic components in order to efficiently pinpoint the root cause of issues
- Customer-obsessed attitude — a customer advocate, always going the extra mile
- Team player with solid communication and presentation skills
- Proactivity — identify opportunities and take preemptive action against potential problems
- Continuous growth — permanently look for areas of improvement, make plans on how to improve them, and execute those plans
- Knowledge of software development fundamentals and common architectures
- Knowledge of HTTP, encryption, basic security concepts
- Understanding of authentication and authorization concepts
- Knowledge of one or more auth protocols/specifications: Oauth2, OIDC, SAML, WS-FED, LDAP, Azure AD, etc
- Proficient in at least one programming language; ideally JavaScript