International Technical Support

Job Title

International Technical Support Engineer (SaaS)

Job Summary
You will provide technical support for a cloud-based SaaS product to users/customers across multiple countries/time zones. Your primary goal is to ensure high availability, smooth user experience, fast resolution of issues, and maintaining strong customer satisfaction. You'll work closely with product, development, and customer success teams to improve product quality and user experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Respond to and resolve technical issues reported by international customers via email, chat, phone, or ticketing system.
• Troubleshoot problems related to software, networking, API integrations, permissions/authentication, cloud infrastructure, performance issues, etc.
• Guide customers through onboarding, configuration, and usage of the SaaS product.
• Reproduce customer-issues in test or staging environments to isolate root-causes.
• Document issues clearly (logs, steps to replicate, environment details) and maintain a well-organized knowledge base / FAQ / help documentation.
• Escalate complex or urgent issues to engineering or senior teams when required.
• Monitor usage metrics, application performance, system health, and proactively identify potential issues.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Product, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure) to share feedback from customers, suggest product improvements, and ensure quality.
• Ensure compliance with SLAs (response time, resolution time) and maintain customer satisfaction/performance metrics.
• May require working in shift rotations / out-of-hours support to cover global customers.
• Assist in validation/testing of new features / releases from a support perspective to catch potential edge cases.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Proven experience (2-5+ years) in technical support or helpdesk roles for SaaS or cloud-based applications.
• Strong problem-solving skills, ability to dig into logs, trace issues back to root causes.
• Good knowledge of APIs, integrations, web technologies (e.g., HTTP, REST), authentication & authorization protocols (e.g. OAuth, SAML) is a plus.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP) or managed SaaS deployment environments.
• Comfortable using monitoring / logging tools and dashboards.
• Experience with ticketing systems (Zendesk, Freshdesk, Jira etc.) and remote support tools.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English; additional language skills preferred if supporting non-English markets.
• Customer-oriented mindset: patience, clarity, empathy.

Preferred / Nice-to-Have

• Basic scripting or debugging skills (e.g. Python, Bash) to assist in automating tasks or analyzing issues.
• Experience with database queries (SQL or NoSQL) to investigate data layer issues.
• Exposure to performance monitoring / APM tools (New Relic, Datadog, etc.).
• Familiarity with cloud security, identity management, permissions.
• Prior experience supporting enterprise customers, or in B2B SaaS.
• Knowledge of ITIL or other support best practices.

Working Conditions

• Rotational shifts / flexible hours to cover international time zones.
• Remote work capability or hybrid/office based (depending on company).
• May need to coordinate across teams in different geographies.
• Occasional pressure from incident or outage response, requiring calmness under stress.

KPIs / Metrics

These are often used to measure performance in this role:

• First response time
• Resolution time
• First contact resolution rate
• Customer satisfaction (CSAT)
• Ticket backlog / open tickets
• Escalation frequency
• Number of repeat issues / recurring problems

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Skills:- Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and SaaS