- Company Name
- Tailscale
- Job Title
- Customer Success Engineer
- Job Description
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**Job title**
Customer Success Engineer
**Role Summary**
Acts as the technical liaison for strategic customers, ensuring successful onboarding, adoption, and ongoing use of the company’s networking and VPN solutions.
**Expectations**
- Drive rapid adoption and long‑term success for high‑value accounts.
- Provide expert technical guidance, problem resolution, and account growth.
- Serve as an internal advocate for customer needs, influencing product and engineering.
**Key Responsibilities**
1. Lead end‑to‑end onboarding for new strategic customers, delivering training, resources, and adoption roadmaps.
2. Deliver technical support: diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve platform issues; assist with configuration, integration, and DevOps setups.
3. Conduct Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) to assess usage, success metrics, and future goals; identify expansion opportunities.
4. Build trusted advisor relationships, recommend best practices, and align solutions with customers’ business objectives.
5. Relay customer feedback, pain points, and feature requests to product, engineering, and support teams.
6. Coordinate with sales, product, and engineering for seamless handoffs, issue escalation, and cross‑functional initiatives.
7. Create, maintain, and share technical documentation, FAQs, and self‑service guides.
**Required Skills**
- ≥6 years in a technical role, with ≥2 years of customer‑facing experience (solutions engineer, support engineer, etc.).
- Enterprise‑level, consultative customer engagement experience.
- Deep understanding of networking, VPNs, and security principles.
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure) and DevOps tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD).
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting mindset.
- Excellent verbal and written communication; ability to explain complex concepts to diverse audiences.
- Time‑management and organizational skill to handle multiple accounts concurrently.
- Collaborative mindset for cross‑functional teamwork.
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
- Industry certifications desirable: AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Google Cloud Professional, Azure Solutions Architect, or equivalent.