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Technical Support Engineer (L1 / Frontline Support)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a comparable technical background
  • Prior experience using Databento as a customer is strongly preferred
  • At least 2 years of experience in technical support, QA, or engineering
  • Working proficiency in Python

Responsibilities

  • Act as the first point of contact for customer support inquiries
  • Resolve common customer issues related to API usage, onboarding, authentication, integration, and billing
  • Escalate issues to L2/L3 support or engineering with clear documentation, reproduction steps, and logs
  • Maintain accurate ticket status, notes, and customer communication

About the company

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Databento

Information Services & Data Providers

Databento makes it simpler and faster to get market data. Our self-service model allows users to instantly pick up live exchange feeds and terabytes of historical data — and only pay for what they use. Our goal is to power the world's largest finance and fintech institutions and make data accessible for small startups.Since starting in 2019, we've raised over $27.8M in funding. Our team brings years of experience running high-frequency trading desks and includes alumni from firms like Two Sigma, Flow Traders, Virtu, and Stripe.

Company details

Company typeStartup
IndustryInformation Services & Data Providers
Company size11 - 50

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Job description

Databento is a fast-growing startup that provides modern APIs for financial market data, making it dramatically easier for firms of all sizes to access and use market data. As a Series A company, we’ve raised $37.8M to date and grown revenue by over 400% YoY.

This is a customer-facing, first-line support position focused on triaging issues, answering technical questions, and helping customers successfully use Databento’s APIs and data products.

This role sits squarely at L1: you’ll be the first point of contact for customer issues, responsible for understanding the problem, resolving common and well-documented cases, and escalating more complex issues to senior support or engineering with clear reproduction steps and context.

Responsibilities

  • Act as the first point of contact for customer support inquiries.
  • Resolve common customer issues related to API usage, onboarding, authentication, integration, and billing.
  • Escalate issues to L2/L3 support or engineering with clear documentation, reproduction steps, and logs.
  • Maintain accurate ticket status, notes, and customer communication.
  • Identify recurring questions and contribute improvements to documentation, FAQs, and onboarding materials.
  • Participate in frontline support on-call rotation.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or a comparable technical background.
  • Prior experience using Databento as a customer is strongly preferred.
  • At least 2 years of experience in technical support, QA, or engineering.
  • Working proficiency in Python.
  • Familiarity with financial trading or market data.
  • Experience with troubleshooting tools (Wireshark, tcpdump, ss, nc, telnet, strace, gdb, perf, eBPF, lsof, curl, xxd, jq, SQL) is a plus.
  • Experience with observability tools (Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Sentry) is a plus.
  • Strong technical communication skills.

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