Support Engineer

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About the role

  • Support Engineer troubleshooting complex API, integration, and production incidents for OpenAI’s Premium Support customers. Improving reliability through monitoring, runbooks, automation, and postmortems.

Responsibilities

  • Troubleshoot complex technical issues for Premium Support customers, including API failures, integration challenges, authentication errors, unexpected product behavior, performance degradation, and production incidents
  • Analyze logs and system behavior, reproduce errors, test hypotheses, isolate failure domains, and provide root-cause findings or evidence-based hypotheses to Engineering
  • Serve as a trusted expert, critical escalation point, and technical backstop for strategic customers
  • Own customer-specific responses to high-impact incidents from severity assessment through mitigation, resolution, and post-incident follow-through
  • Communicate proactively with customer technical teams, business stakeholders, executives, and internal partners
  • Document customer architectures, integrations, dependencies, critical workloads, and operational constraints for Support, Product, and Engineering
  • Partner with Go-to-Market and Technical Success teams on workload importance, prioritization, and communication
  • Represent Support Engineering in customer meetings, including QBRs, and communicate technical health, risks, blockers, and follow-up
  • Monitor integrations and support trends to identify emerging risks, recurring failure patterns, and readiness gaps
  • Prepare account-specific runbooks and escalation paths for launches, migrations, traffic increases, and business events
  • Lead or contribute to incident reviews and postmortems and track corrective actions through closure
  • Translate recurring customer pain into evidence-backed Product and Engineering feedback
  • Create scalable improvements including troubleshooting guides, monitoring, internal tooling, support workflows, and AI-powered automation
  • Help shape Premium Support’s operating model, technical standards, and tooling globally

Requirements

  • Significant experience in Support Engineering, Solutions Engineering, Solutions Architecture, or another role involving hands-on diagnosis of complex production issues
  • Expert-level troubleshooting skills across APIs, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise integrations
  • Experience working with logs, metrics, traces, API requests, authentication flows, and customer-provided code or configurations
  • Experience leading or centrally participating in customer-impacting incidents, including severity assessment, technical coordination, stakeholder communication, root-cause analysis, and post-incident follow-through
  • Ability to write code or scripts to reproduce issues, interrogate systems, automate repetitive work, and improve internal tools
  • Experience with Python, JavaScript, or similar languages is valuable
  • Ability to communicate complex technical issues clearly to engineers, customer technical teams, business stakeholders, and senior leaders
  • Ability to build strong, high-trust relationships while maintaining clear and scalable ownership boundaries
  • Ability to identify patterns, improve systems, and prevent recurrence
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguity and learn as needed
  • Humble, team-first mindset, strong judgment, and eagerness to help customers and colleagues
  • Excitement about using OpenAI products, agents, and emerging AI capabilities to transform technical support

Benefits

  • Remote work currently available, with expected transition to an in-office arrangement
  • Immigration and sponsorship support may be provided based on individual circumstances
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities
  • Equal employment opportunity
  • Global team and cross-functional collaboration opportunities

Job type

Full Time

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

Tech skills

CloudDistributed SystemsJavaScriptPythonGo

Location requirements

HybridTorontoCanada

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