Technical Escalation & Incident Response Engineer

Overview

Own complex technical escalations and drive Product Incident Response as the primary technical bridge between customer-facing, Product and R&D teams.

What you'll do

• Triage and own complex escalations from intake through resolution, including technical investigation, impact assessment, routing, documentation, stakeholder communication, and follow-up.
• Identify recurring patterns and potential incidents, assess blast radius, track affected customers, and provide Product Incident Response with clear evidence and recommended next steps.
• Where eligible, partner with the Business & Systems Resilience team during incidents affecting federal agencies, supporting agency notifications, technical updates, root cause analyses, lessons learned, and corrective actions through closure.
• Help keep the commercial and FedRAMP/IL4 environments aligned, tracking features, fixes, configurations, and processes while meeting compliance and data-separation requirements.
• Own the documentation, troubleshooting guidance, and run books that come out of your work, and improve escalation processes, severity criteria, field enablement, and operational metrics.
• Build compliant AI-assisted tools and automation for escalation intake, investigation, classification, routing, correlation, summarization, and trend detection.
• Build monitoring and scheduled checks that surface degradation and silent failures before customers report them.
• Run back-office operations, including tenant provisioning, licensing and entitlements, access changes, and configuration updates, safely and with a full audit trail.

What you'll need

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5 years experience in technical escalations, production support, SRE, incident response, or a similar technical role.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting cloud infrastructure, APIs, networking, authentication, data pipelines, and distributed systems by analyzing logs, traces, and other diagnostic data.
• Experience designing and building tools or systems that support operational processes, using scripting, APIs, automation, and AI assisted workflows.
• Strong ownership, technical judgment, and the ability to drive unfamiliar and complex issues to resolution.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain technical findings to different audiences.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud security products or cybersecurity.
• Familiarity with incident management, including severity assessment, blast-radius analysis, mitigation, recovery validation, and post-incident reviews.
• Experience building AI-based tools for technical investigation, triage, routing, summarization, or trend detection.
• Experience with FedRAMP, DoD IL4, or another regulated government environment, including authorization boundaries, continuous monitoring, and controlled data handling.

Details

• Remote, USA.
• Applicants must have the legal right to work in the country where the position is based, without the need for visa sponsorship.
• This role does not offer visa sponsorship.