Support Engineer II Remote
Job description
Introduction
The GitHub Security & Revenue Support team is looking for a full-time team member based in the United Kingdom! This person will join GitHub as part of our global support team and support our customers around the world.
Responsibilities:
When GitHub users have questions, they email support. We help people as quickly and awesomely as possible. Our Security & Revenue Support team handle passwords, email verification, billing, legal, spam and abuse, account lockouts, fraud, and helping people choose plans. This requires a logical brain and a spidey sense for solving problems.
The most important characteristic of our support team is that we love helping developers. GitHub is a place for people to work better together. Our job is to help. Support treats users the way we’d want someone to treat our friends.
Our support teammates have excellent writing chops: stellar grammar, charming written personality, and the ability to explain complicated things simply. We measure our success in swiftness, accuracy, and clarity.
Developers: this probably isn’t the job for you, but perhaps you have a friend who would be a perfect fit. Send them this link. Thanks!
Required Qualifications:
- Stellar English and grammar skills
- Excellent problem solving skills – you might not know all of the answers, but you know how to find and communicate the solution
- A strong sense of empathy and the ability to advocate for others
- A high level of comfort and proficiency in using various technological tools and applications
- Able to work flexible hours across various time zones
Preferred Qualifications:
- Prior customer support experience
- Experience working remotely
- Previous work with GitHub and/or developers
- Technical experience (QA, documentation, elaborate board games)
- Experience supporting web apps
- Knowledge of banking or online payment systems
Location: In this role, you can work remotely from anywhere in the United Kingdom.
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Who We Are:
As the global home for all developers, GitHub is the complete AI-powered developer platform to build, scale, and deliver secure software. Over 100 million people, including developers from 90 of the Fortune 100 companies, use GitHub to build amazing things together across 330+ million repositories. With all the collaborative features of GitHub, it has never been easier for individuals and teams to write faster, better code.
Leadership Principles:
Customer Obsessed - Trust by Default - Ship to Learn - Own the Outcome - Growth Mindset - Global Product, Global Team - Anything is Possible - Practice Kindness
Why You Should Join:
At GitHub, we constantly strive to create an environment that allows our employees (Hubbers) to do the best work of their lives. We've designed one of the coolest workspaces in San Francisco (HQ), where many Hubbers work, snack, and create daily. The rest of our Hubbers work remotely around the globe. Check out an updated list of where we can hire here: https://github.com/about/careers/remote
We are also committed to keeping Hubbers healthy, motivated, focused and creative. We've designed our top-notch benefits program with these goals in mind. In a nutshell, we've built a place where we truly love working, we think you will too.
GitHub is made up of people from a wide variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We don't discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there's any way we can make the interview process better for you; we're happy to accommodate!
Please note that benefits vary by country. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask your Talent Partner.
