About the role

This is **not** a ticket-queue role. This is the job you take if you *like* being the person pulled into the room when it’s on fire, because you can prove root cause and drive the team to resolution.

We’re hiring a Principal Technical Support Engineer to act as a technical authority for our most complex, executive-visible customer escalations. You’ll be customer-facing on live escalation bridges and bring the calm, technical credibility that stabilizes situations fast.

Important operating model: Our Escalation Managers own customer messaging and stakeholder communications. You partner with them by providing the technical truth, diagnosis, evidence, architecture, risk framing, and next-best actions, so what gets communicated is accurate and defensible.

No Bentley product experience required. If you learn fast, think clearly under pressure, and can troubleshoot modern cloud systems end-to-end, we want you.

Responsibilities:

1. Technical Leadership in Escalations (Customer-Facing)

• Act as a senior technical lead during high severity (P1 / Sev1) customer escalations.
• Join and actively participate in live escalation bridges, providing:
• Technical diagnosis and direction
• Clear explanation of system behavior and failure modes
• Credible technical input to support customer and executive conversations
• Partner closely with Escalation Managers, who own:
• Customer and executive messaging
• Communication cadence
• Stakeholder alignment
  while you ensure the technical narrative is accurate, coherent, and defensible.
• Help stabilize emotionally charged situations by bringing clarity, structure, and technical confidence to live discussions.

2. Deep Technical Diagnostics & Resolution (Prove root cause, no guessing, no vibes)

• Lead complex technical investigations across:
• Cloud hosted and hybrid application architectures
• Azure based infrastructure and services
• Integrated Bentley products and third-party and APIs
• Perform advanced diagnostics using:
• Observability platforms such as Grafana
• Application and platform logging
• Wireshark, Fiddler, HAR captures, and packet analysis
• Apply strong foundational knowledge of:
• Microsoft Windows (server and client environments)
• Networking (TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP/S, routing, proxies, VPNs, load balancing)
• Identity, authentication, and integration patterns
• Work directly with product, engineering, cloud, and technology teams to:
• Isolate root causes
• Validate hypotheses
• Align on remediation and long-term corrective actions

3. Product & Technology Partnership

• Act as a trusted technical partner to internal Product and Technology teams, bridging the gap between real-world customer impact and engineering context.
• Improve escalation effectiveness by:
• Raising the technical quality of issues escalated to engineering
• Providing clear reproduction details, diagnostics, and impact analysis
• Identify product and architectural themes emerging from escalations and proactively feed insights back into:
• Product roadmap discussions
• Supportability and observability improvements
• Technical risk reviews

4. Raise the bar across global support (Principal-Level Impact)

• Serve as a technical multiplier for Global Technical Support through:
• Mentoring senior engineers during live escalations and swarming
• Coaching structured troubleshooting and escalation thinking
• Create and maintain:
• Escalation and diagnostic playbooks
• Architecture aware troubleshooting guidance
• Technical reference material used by escalation and support leaders globally
• Reduce recurring escalations by driving systemic improvements rather than one‑off fixes.

Required Qualifications (Must-Have):

• 10+ years in senior technical support / escalation engineering / production support for enterprise software applications (SaaS, cloud-hosted, or hybrid strongly preferred).
• Proven record owning P1/P0 escalations and guiding issues through resolution with Engineering/Operations partners.
• Strong, practical expertise in:
• Azure cloud architecture concepts (identity, networking, compute, storage, monitoring)
• Microsoft Windows (server and client), troubleshooting, performance, and diagnostics
• Networking fundamentals and packet-level troubleshooting methods
• API/integration troubleshooting and familiarity with modern auth patterns (OAuth/SSO concepts)
• Demonstrated ability to interpret complex diagnostic data (e.g., packet captures, HAR files, deep logs) and drive clear hypotheses to closure.
• Exceptional communication: able to explain deeply technical findings to both engineers and customer stakeholders; skilled at de-escalation under pressure.

Certifications (Required / Strongly Preferred)

Required: at least one current, role-relevant cloud certification (or evidence you can achieve within 90 days).
Strongly Preferred:

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104)
• Networking certs such as CCNA/CCNP (or equivalent demonstrable networking depth)
• Security fundamentals (e.g., SC-900 or equivalent) are a plus

Communication & Collaboration Skills

• Exceptional communication skills with the ability to:
• Explain complex technical issues clearly to engineers
• Support escalation leaders in executive‑level discussions
• Adapt technical detail for different audiences, including C‑level stakeholders
• Comfortable operating in a model where:
• Escalation Managers own messaging and stakeholder communication
• You provide the technical authority and decision‑making foundation
• Calm, credible presence during high‑pressure incidents.

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About Bentley Systems

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