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Manage and resolve complex customer support tickets related to billing, usage, and account diagnostics. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to report bugs, improve supportability, and contribute to team strategy.
GitHub is growing its Support Engineering team and we're seeking experienced professionals to elevate our customer support outcomes in Biling. As a Support Engineer III, you will manage support tickets, identify and report bugs, and contribute to innovative product developments.
You will resolve customer support tickets through web, email, phone, and chat. . These tickets often involve billing disputes, invoice questions, refunds/credits, usage and metering interpretation, entitlement and plan transitions, policy edge cases, and related technical diagnostics. You will collaborate with Engineering, Product, and Documentation teams to prioritize fixes, improve supportability, and improve customer resources. While Git expertise isn’t required, strong technical skills and a passion for helping people are essential.
The ideal candidate will drive impactful improvements in customer support by fostering teamwork, collaboration, and adaptability. Their initiative and contributions will be crucial in streamlining support processes and enhancing team efficiency.
Regularly troubleshoot and solve complex customer support tickets of varying complexity with minimal or no assistance.
Progress assigned open tickets and assigned new tickets with timely, high-quality replies within the assigned squad.
Effectively communicate technical and policy information to customers and internal stakeholders.
Follow up on open bugs and issues filed with Engineering through closure.
Work proactively with customers on security- and revenue-impacting activities such as account access recovery, compliance clarifications, and billing behavior expectations.
Manage urgent customer-impacting issues during business hours.
Provide real-time support via phone and chat, using remote troubleshooting methods when required.
Ticket Work
Regularly troubleshoot tickets of varying complexity with minimal or no assistance.
Uses evidence-based diagnosis and clear customer communications.
Progresses assigned open tickets and assigned new tickets with timely, high-quality replies within the assigned squad.
Follows up on open bugs and issues filed with Engineering.
Training
May provide training and guidance on an area of expertise within a squad.
Works on developing their own training/teaching skills.
Customer Advocacy
Advocates for the customer and the team as a priority.
Act as a liaison between customer and Engineering.
Product Feedback
Identifies and reports bugs and feature requests based on customer feedback and recurring ticket patterns.
Process Improvement
Updates various repos (e.g., team documentation, public documentation, support discussions).
Actively contributes to cross-organization and team strategy discussions.
Knowledge Attainment & Sharing
Takes deliberate steps toward becoming a subject matter expert in one or more areas.
Actively seeks assistance in specialty areas. Acts as a SME of one or more categories within a squad.
Required Qualifications
5+ years experience in customer support, account management, billing operations, trust & safety, or related roles
OR Bachelor's Degree in any field AND 3+ years' experience in a customer-facing support or operations role
OR equivalent experience
Preferred Qualifications
Experience handling billing inquiries, subscription management, or invoice-based account support in a SaaS environment
Familiarity with trust & safety, compliance documentation (e.g. SOC 2, GDPR requests, security questionnaires), or account integrity workflows
Previous experience supporting enterprise customers, including navigating escalations and working cross-functionally with Sales, Legal, or Finance teams
Comfort working with support tooling (e.g. Zendesk, Salesforce, or similar CRM/ticketing platforms) and interpreting basic account or usage data
Must be customer-service oriented, with strong teamwork, collaboration, adaptability, and initiative, along with exceptional verbal, written, organizational, and communication skills
GitHub values
Manager fundamentals
Leadership principles
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