Sunday, March 11, 2012

[JimsJobs] Silver Tail Systems based in Menlo Park, Ca seeks Sr Customer Support Engineer

 

Silver Tail Systems builds products to provide behavior-based fraud detection and prevention in enterprise networks. Based in Menlo Park,  Ca. Silver Tail is VC backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Leapfrog, with significant Series B funding. and been in business for over 3 years. Silver Tail has revenue-generating customers. We are ramping up for significant growth in the marketplace.  We are a firm that is leading the way in the rapidly expanding market of Internet Security, providing behavior based fraud detection and prevention against business logic abuse on websites . We have many  revenue-generating customers including PayPal, Sears, Etrade and several financial institutions in the UK.   
 
Silver Tail was founded by a team of fraud-prevention experts who also built anti-fraud and anti-phishing tools at eBay and PayPal.  Combining experience with cutting-edge proprietary algorithms, Silver Tail has built highly scalable products that minimize false positive rates and adapt to changing fraud attack vectors through the use of proprietary behavior analysis algorithms.
 
Sr Customer Support Engineer- Position will be based on the East Coast of the US.  Successful candidate will be able to work from home.
 
Job Description:
 
As a support engineer at Silver Tail, your primary responsibility will be as the face of the Silver Tail product when customers have issues or concerns.  Every interaction that you have with the customer will be defined as friendly, intelligent, and responsive.   You will work with the customer to diagnose issues, provide customer education, reproduce and escalate issues seen in the field, and contribute in other ways to make Silver Tail support world class for the top companies of the world.  You will embrace company values regarding customer priority and integrity in all of your focus areas.
 
Responsibilities:
·           Respond to customer issues in a timely manner via phone or ticketing system
·           Ensure that every customer touch point is a positive one
·           Reproduce issues independently for escalation to engineering
·           Diagnose issues onsite, and provide workarounds whenever possible
·           Advocate for the customer in bug review meetings
·           Track ticket volumes, issue types, suggest changes to reduce repetitive issues 
Required Skillset/Experience:  A qualified candidate will have many or all of the following:
·      Experience building a support team (in both process and technology)
·      Experience in supporting Fortune 500 companies.  Experience in the security space a plus
·      5+ years in a customer support role, 8+ years in the high tech industry
·      Solid Linux user/admin capabilities
·      Basic scripting skills and networking/sysadmin tools experience to reduce diagnostic time and effort
·      Familiar with network diagnostics and configuration
·      Experience in a small company  environment; with a small team 
Attributes
·      Friendly, yet straightforward
·      Passionate about customer opinion
·      Articulate; able to easily explain to customer
·      Diplomatic; able to defuse sticky situations
·      Intelligent and creative in solving customer issues
·      Strong written and verbal English communication skills with positive personality
·      Excellent time-management, multitasking skills 
What Silver Tail Offers:
·      A challenging environment with top-notch team members across sales, engineering, and of course—support!
       Leaders in the anti-fraud community work here.
·     Innovative technology that is catching criminals and protecting innocent users.
·      Family-friendly work policies and benefits.
·      Energetic leadership with proven track record. 
Silver Tail Systems is a leader in the anti fraud, analytics area in the rapidly expanding market of the WWW and Internet.  We offer an outstanding compensation package as well as lucrative equity in our firm.  Please send your information to Herbnj@gmail.com

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