Opportunity brief
HackerRank is hiring for the role of Customer Experience Engineer, L1!
Responsibilities of the Candidate:
- Own standard and moderately complex customer issues from first investigation through resolution and closure.
- Debug web application, API, integration, authentication, configuration, and data issues using logs, developer tools, SQL, and established investigation patterns.
- Communicate clearly and empathetically across tickets, calls, incidents, and internal channels; ask precise questions, set expectations, and close every loop.
- Work with CXE 2 engineers on complex, high-risk, or enterprise cases, taking on greater ownership as your readiness grows.
- Create structured escalation reports for confirmed product issues and stay accountable for progress and customer closure when Engineering is involved.
- Use AI tools safely to accelerate investigation, validate hypotheses, improve responses, correct support-agent outputs, and strengthen team knowledge.
- Turn learning from customer issues into better documentation, runbooks, product feedback, and small automation or tooling improvements.
- Protect shared queue health by prioritising accurately, meeting service levels, documenting work cleanly, and helping rebalance work across shifts.
- Participate in rotational shifts and on-call coverage, including occasional evenings or weekends, to support global customer needs.
Requirements:
- A recent graduate or early-career engineer with up to 3 years of relevant experience. Strong freshers are encouraged to apply.
- Strong programming fundamentals and comfort reading code; experience with Python, JavaScript, Java, or a similar language.
- Familiarity with REST APIs, HTTP, web applications, and how software systems communicate.
- Working knowledge of SQL and an interest in using data to investigate and validate behaviour.
- Curious and systematic: you want to understand why something failed, not just make the error disappear.
- Clear written and verbal communicator who can explain technical ideas in plain language to customers and engineers.
- Comfortable asking for review when risk or uncertainty is high, then applying the feedback quickly.
- Open to rotational shifts and occasional on-call coverage across a global customer base.