At arenaflex, we're passionate about building a more trustworthy Internet, and we're looking for a talented and experienced Customer Solutions Engineer to join our team. As a key member of our customer-facing team, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining technical relationships with our customers, providing proactive and thorough assistance, and acting as the primary technical contact for some of our largest and most critical clients.
**About arenaflex**
arenaflex is a leading edge cloud platform that enables customers to create great digital experiences quickly, securely, and reliably by processing, serving, and securing our customers' applications as close to their end-users as possible – at the edge of the Internet. Our platform is designed to take advantage of the modern internet, to be programmable, and to support agile software development. We're proud to have many of the world's most prominent companies as our customers, including Vimeo, Pinterest, The New York Times, and GitHub.
**Job Summary**
As a Customer Solutions Engineer at arenaflex, you'll be responsible for building and maintaining technical relationships with our customers, providing proactive and thorough assistance, and acting as the primary technical contact for some of our largest and most critical clients. You'll work closely with our account management team to develop customer-specific strategies, build and maintain technical relationships across multiple key stakeholders within an account, and handle customer escalations. You'll also collaborate with many teams across arenaflex to leverage your technical expertise, close relationships, and communication skills to help drive customer initiatives and growth.
**Key Responsibilities**
* As the resident arenaflex architect for your customer, you'll be an extension of the customer's technical team, representing and championing their needs within arenaflex.
* Develop technical relationships with multiple customer contacts to build a deep understanding of their team, infrastructure, plans, and problems they're encountering.
* Post-sales implementation of arenaflex products, such as logging endpoints, image optimization, and VCL coding, while documenting key aspects of the customer's configuration for troubleshooting and engagement.
* Identify key challenges across an account (or internal org), sometimes before they're verbalized, and develop alternatives and solutions that balance impact and effort.
* Help investigate and recommend ways to improve customer implementation and utilization of arenaflex's product portfolio, partnering with Sales and Account Management.
* Be your customer's champion and advocate within arenaflex, responsible for tracking and reporting on the health of your customer accounts.
* Develop mutually beneficial solutions to customer tasks, balancing customer impact and arenaflex cost/effort.
* Take initiative in adopting organizational changes and sharing progress/impact with the team.
* Provide constructive feedback and coaching. Mentor new Cloud Engineers to strengthen their technical expertise as it relates to your area of specialty.
* Be an effective communicator. Internally represent your accounts with all levels of management, including risks, new opportunities, and technical requirements.
* Work hands-on with CS and Sales Leaders along with internal teams and customers on any support requests or problems for assigned customers, driving escalation as necessary depending on severity.
* Assist in developing strategy for and participation in regularly scheduled customer meetings on-site and by video/phone as necessary.
**What We're Looking For**
* At least 8+ years of related experience in Pre-Sales or Post-Sales in Sales Engineering, Technical Support, Technical Account Management, or Professional Services type roles, ideally with a background in CDNs, Cloud, and/or internet infrastructure products.
* Success as a relationship builder and collaborator with amazing verbal and written communication skills.
* Strong technical background and customer orientation.
* Empathy and understanding of the customer.
* Technical experience with:
+ HTTP, TCP, TLS, DNS, and other common protocols.
+ Scripting languages and web platforms, especially Varnish and VCL.
+ *nix operating systems.
+ Underlying internet technologies.
+ Clear understanding of network & system management solutions.
+ Superior organizational and project management skills.
**Work Hours and Location**
* This position will require you to be available during core business hours.
* While most duties will be performed during normal business hours, there is an occasional requirement for a flexible schedule as necessary based on customer needs.
* This position is open to both hybrid and remote.
* The preferred hybrid locations for this position are: New York City, NY.
* arenaflex currently embraces a largely hybrid model for most roles which allows employees flexibility to split their time between the office and home.
* We are also willing to consider remote candidates in any area of the east coast of the US.
* This position may require travel as required by your role or requested by your manager.
**Compensation and Benefits**
* The estimated salary range for this position is $104,830.00 - $147,996.00.
* Starting salary may vary based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and location.
* This role may be eligible to participate in arenaflex's equity and discretionary bonus programs.
* We care about you. arenaflex works hard to create a positive environment for our employees, and we think your life outside of work is important too. We support our teams with great benefits that start on the first day of your employment with arenaflex.
* We offer a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance. Family planning, mental health support along with Employee Assistance Program, Insurance (Life, Disability, and Accident), a Flexible Vacation policy and up to 18 days of accrued paid sick leave are there to help support our employees.
* We also offer 401(k) (including company match) and an Employee Stock Purchase Program.
* For 2024, we offer 10 paid local holidays, 11 paid company wellness days.
**Why arenaflex?**
* We have a huge impact. arenaflex is a small company with a big reach. Not only do we have a tremendous user base, but we also support a growing number of . Outside of code, employees are encouraged to share causes close to their heart with others so we can help lend a supportive hand.
* We love distributed teams. arenaflex's home-base is in San Francisco, but we have multiple offices and employees sprinkled around the globe. As a new hire, you will be able to attend our IN-PERSON new hire orientation in our San Francisco office! It is an exciting week-long experience that we offer to new employees to build connections with colleagues across arenaflex, participate in hands-on learning opportunities, and immerse yourself in our culture firsthand.
* We value diversity. Growing and maintaining our inclusive and diverse team matters to us. We are committed to being a company where our employees feel comfortable bringing their authentic selves to work and have the ability to be successful -- every day.
* We are passionate. arenaflex is chock full of passionate people and we're not 'one size fits all'. arenaflex employs authors, pilots, skiers, parents (of humans and animals), makeup geeks, coffee connoisseurs, and more. We love employees for who they are and what they are passionate about.
**How to Apply**
If you think you might be a fit for this role, please submit your application and resume or CV. We're always looking for humble, sharp, and creative folks to join the arenaflex team.