Technical Support Engineer

Yugabyte is the company behind YugabyteDB , the AI-ready, multi-modal, distributed PostgreSQL database for cloud-native apps. Trusted by industry leaders including Shopify, Paramount+, GM, Kroger, Fiserv, and NPCI, YugabyteDB has been deployed in over 100 countries and powers more than 5 million clusters worldwide.

Together, our hard-working team of experts and our industry-leading technology are uniquely positioned to meet the demands of modern workloads: geo-distributed, ultra-resilient, and built to scale without limits.

Our Yugabeings (distributed, like our database) span 12+ countries and multiple time zones, sharing expertise from diverse backgrounds and industries.

Technical Support Engineer

Remote (Americas)

At Yugabyte , we are on a mission to become the default transactional database for enterprises building cloud-native applications. YugabyteDB is our PostgreSQL-compatible distributed SQL database — resilient, scalable, and built to run anywhere. We're not just building software; we're watching major enterprises throw out Oracle and build something better, and the people who help them get there are the ones sitting in this team.

About This Role

We're looking for someone who gets genuinely excited when a customer's database is on fire, because they are eager to dive in and help.

This isn't a "ticket-monkey" role. You won't be copy-pasting canned responses into a queue. You'll be working live cases — distributed systems behaving unexpectedly, replication lag climbing, certificates expiring in production — alongside a global team that actually cares about getting to the root of things. You'll learn YugabyteDB, cloud infrastructure, and distributed systems the way everyone learns them best: by necessity, with great people around you.

What You'll Do

Triage and own technical support tickets from enterprise customers, collaborating with a global team across time zones

Investigate incidents methodically — reading logs, running queries, tracing replication issues — and surface the root cause, not just the fix

Write clear internal notes and handover documentation so the next engineer can pick up exactly where you left off (this is not optional; notes are the job)

Attempt repros of customer issues and document the steps for others to replicate

Escalate to engineering when warranted, with enough evidence that they can act immediately

Contribute to the team's shared knowledge base and improve how we handle problems we've seen before

Be the calm, professional voice a customer hears when their weekend just got complicated

What We're Looking For

You are the right person if:

You jump in. When something unfamiliar comes across the queue and no one's claimed it, your instinct is to click it and start reading, not to wait.

You embrace not knowing the answer yet, and you see that as the start of something, not a reason to hold back.

You aren't afraid to reach out for help when you're stuck. You know it's a sign that you are learning. And when others are stuck, you are happy to help them

You have a technical background in any discipline — software, systems, automotive, aerospace, networking, electronics, whatever. If you have solved real problems under real pressure with tools and documentation, that counts.

You have familiarity with Linux tools -- you have used the tools find and grep to navigate a filesystem