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Support Engineer

Role overview

Summary

This role is for a Support Engineer at Kinsta, focused on providing technical support to customers through live chat. You will be part of a team dedicated to delivering high-quality assistance, embodying Kinsta's commitment to customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

  • Fluent in English with excellent written communication skills.
  • Great customer service skills with online customer service experience.
  • Preferred: Experience with Linux, NGINX, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP, DNS, CDN, and caching technologies
  • Preferred: Understanding of WordPress, including database structure and common topics
  • Preferred: Familiarity with Cloudflare, Dockerfiles, and Git repository services is beneficial.

Responsibilities

  • Take ownership of issues reported by customers and see problems through to resolution.
  • Research, troubleshoot, and identify solutions to resolve customer issues.
  • Follow standard procedures for proper escalation of unresolved issues to the appropriate internal teams.
  • Provide prompt and accurate feedback to customers.

Key facts

Hard skills

Other skills

  • Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
  • Customer Service
  • Communication
  • Detail Oriented

About the company

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Kinsta

  • Cloud & IT Infrastructure
  • Scaleup
  • 201–500
About us: Kinsta was founded in 2013 with a desire to change the status quo. We set out to create the best WordPress hosting platform in the world, and that’s our promise. At Kinsta, we take managed WordPress hosting and performance to the next level. Powered by Google Cloud Platform and their lightning-fast premium tier network, WordPress users can choose from 25+ data centers around the globe. We host all types of sites, from small blogs up to Fortune 500 customers. Kinsta is obsessed with performance: Imagine a car enthusiast building their dream ride. That's us with WordPress hosting. We love what we do and are obsessed with fine-tuning our servers to deliver maximum speeds. Kinsta is global: We serve thousands of clients from 128 countries around the globe through our 25+ data centers. The only continent we haven't reached yet is Antarctica. Kinsta is local: Wherever it is on the globe, we like to be locals. That's why we hired a remote support team that covers all time zones. We also provide native-speaking support in 6 languages. Kinsta is diverse: Our team is remote-first with some local hubs. This allows us to hire top talent worldwide without boundaries. Our diversity is also our power. We all come from different walks of life, and this widens our unified perspective. It instills an understanding that we can use on a daily basis when interacting with each other or with clients. Kinsta loves WordPress: Just like you, we are all members of the WordPress community: users, developers, and enthusiasts. That's why we build our business around the best CMS in the world. Kinsta is independent: We are proud to be one of the fastest-growing managed WordPress hosts in the industry. This means stability for our platform and, consequently, to your site. Kinsta is deeply rooted in hosting and is here to stay.

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Job description

Kinsta is one of the top providers of managed hosting for WordPress, with a growing club of 120,000+ businesses including startups, universities, and Fortune 500 firms. We’re motivated by excellent quality and proud to have received a 97% satisfaction rating from our customers.   That's because, to us, each day is a chance to grow. As a team, we continuously inspire each other to learn new and better ways to make an impact. We own our jobs proudly - our leaders don't hold our hands, but they're in our corner whenever we ask for help - and our environment is flexible and remote-first.   As our new Support Engineer, you'll use your technical knowledge, curiosity, and eloquence to provide world-class technical support to our customers through our live chat system. Reporting to the Support Manager, you will join the beating heart of Kinsta - a team embodying our DNA and desire to provide industry-leading support.   This role's shift needs are Saturday - Wednesday, 4 PM—12 AM UTC (our team uses UTC for scheduling).
What You Will Do:
  • Take ownership of issues reported by customers and see problems through to resolution.
  • Research, troubleshoot, and identify solutions to resolve customer issues.
  • Follow standard procedures for proper escalation of unresolved issues to the appropriate internal teams.
  • Provide prompt and accurate feedback to customers.
  • Crave knowledge and continue to hone and improve your own technical and non-technical skills.

  • What You Bring To The Role:
  • You are completely fluent in English with excellent written communication skills.
  • Great customer service skills with online customer service experience.

  • Bonus Points If You:
  • Have experience with the following technologies: Linux, NGINX, MySQL/MariaDB, PHP, DNS, CDN, and caching (object and page).
  • Have an understanding of WordPress: database structure, file/directory structure, wp-config.php directives, and other common WordPress topics. Experience with WP-CLI is preferable.
  • Are comfortable navigating within a command line environment, including file management, reading and interpreting server logs, and attention to detail with command line syntax.
  • Have familiarity with Cloudflare, Buildpacks, Dockerfiles, third-party Git repository services (such as GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket), npm, or Composer is beneficial.

  • Our Benefits:
  • Annual remote expense budget.
  • Flexible PTO.
  • Paid parental leave.
  • Annual professional development budget: available after one year with Kinsta.
  • Sabbatical: available after three years with Kinsta (and every three years thereafter).
  • Location-specific healthcare benefits (includes vision and dental) for employees hired in the USA, UK, Canada, and Hungary.
  • Pension plan for employees hired in the UK, and 401k contributions for employees hired in the USA
  • Kinsta is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We will not discriminate and we will take actions to ensure against discrimination in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the basis of race, color, gender, national origin, citizenship, age, religion, creed, disability, marital status, veteran’s status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.
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