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Reports to: Head of Global Support
Location: Remote
About Proscia
Proscia is revolutionizing pathology, the last major frontier in healthcare to embrace digital. As a leader in pathology AI software, we are empowering pathologists and scientists to transition from traditional microscope-based workflows to digital, AI-driven approaches, unlocking new possibilities in precision medicine. The digital pathology market is experiencing explosive growth as advances in AI enable unprecedented insights into diseases like cancer. Pathology is central to medicine, and the shift to AI-powered solutions is not just modernizing workflows—it’s transforming how diseases are diagnosed, treated, and understood. Predictions for the future of pathology show a tidal wave of adoption, with experts describing the field as “poised for the next major breakthrough” in healthcare innovation. Backed by over $100 million in funding from leading healthcare and technology investors, Proscia is at the forefront of this revolution. Joining Proscia means being part of a company at the cutting edge of healthcare innovation, where the possibilities are limitless. With the convergence of AI, precision medicine, and digital pathology, we’re not just changing pathology—we’re redefining what’s possible in medicine.
About The Role
Some problems don’t fit in a ticket. A customer’s platform is misbehaving in ways no error message explains, across environments running different versions, and more than one team already has a theory. Those are the problems that land with you. As a Staff Technical Support Engineer, you are one of the most senior technical minds in the Support organization. Your job isn’t to be the last line of defense, it’s to get upstream of the queue: to own Proscia’s hardest customer problems end-to-end, find the systemic faults before they become ticket clusters, and shape how our platform is built, deployed, and supported so the root causes are treated and not just their symptoms. You set the technical bar for the team and partner directly with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to make what you learn in the field visible for cross-functional use and feed it back into how Proscia works beyond the Support organization.
About You
You’re drawn to the hardest, most ambiguous problems in the room: the multi-system ones with no runbook yet, where three teams have three theories and none of them is quite right. You’d rather find a systemic fault before it becomes ten tickets than be the hero who closes them one at a time. You reason from evidence, not hunches: you gather what the systems actually show, hold competing explanations honestly instead of forcing a tidy story, and follow the thread across code, infrastructure, and live customer environments until the real cause surfaces. You treat AI as a native part of how you work, leveraging the powerful tools available without losing the edge of human judgement required as you correlate across complex systems, reproduce a defect faster than anyone thought possible, or untangle multiple disparate root causes that others see as a unified whole. You don’t hoard what you learn: every hard-won diagnosis becomes something the whole team can stand on next time.
What You’ll Own
- Get ahead of the fire. Hunt down systemic risks and recurring failure patterns before they surface as a wave of tickets. Read the signals across the customer base at scale, stay ahead of every new release, and drive the fixes that quietly remove whole categories of issues.
- Own the hardest investigations. Take the ambiguous, business-critical, multi-system problems no one else can crack. Gather evidence, form and test hypotheses, reproduce the worst defects in lab environments, and follow the thread across application, infrastructure, and live customer environments until the true root cause is undeniable.
- Shape how the platform is built and supported. Turn field patterns into influence: partner with Engineering, Product, and QA on roadmap decisions, define how issues move from customer to engineering, and carry the voice of the customer into product and infrastructure planning.
- Multiply the team. Make everyone around you better. Mentor and coach engineers, lead technical training and pairing, set the standard for documentation and knowledge quality, and build the onboarding and career frameworks the team grows into.
- Lead the deep deployment work. Run the complex upgrades, migrations, and provisioning efforts where both the technical depth and the stakes are highest and where divergent customer environments fly in the face of runbooks and expectations.
- Be there when it counts. When a critical incident hits, you lead: steady, high-touch customer communication and live troubleshooting on major incident calls.
What You Bring
- 8+ years in technical, customer-facing engineering roles, including senior or lead-level scope.
- A drive to solve difficult problems for their own sake – not just because it’s your job, but because you won’t be satisfied until your own curiosity is sated.
- A track record of getting ahead of problems and spotting systemic patterns, driving preventative fixes that measurably cut escalation volume.
- Comfort in ambiguity: you analyze complex, messy data, make high-stakes calls independently, and stay effective where there’s no runbook yet.
- You’ve owned a technical escalation process end-to-end and at scale from customer request through Engineering and Product.
- Deep troubleshooting across distributed systems, with a strong command of network architecture, infrastructure fundamentals and modern remote-diagnosis techniques.
- Advanced knowledge or expertise in some or all of: Linux, Kubernetes, Docker Compose, and SQL.
- You’ve made AI tools a default part of how you investigate, reason, and build, and you know how to validate and constrain what they produce rather than trust it blindly.
- You raise the bar for teams, not just tickets. You’ve mentored, set technical standards that outlast any single problem, and advocated for customers across the entire org chart.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience influencing product or engineering roadmaps from support and customer data.
- Knowledge of digital pathology, or experience in healthcare, regulated, or other mission-critical environments where failure has real consequences.
- Open-source work, side projects, or a portfolio that shows how you think and build.
- A background that spans multiple domains — you’ve reinvented yourself before.
Beyond Just Work
As a company in healthcare, we want our people to be happy and healthy, in and out of the office. In addition to competitive pay, we ensure everyone on our team is supported with savings, schedule, and insurance options that promote long-term health and personal growth. Our office environment is designed for creativity and agility: with walls as notepads and couches for collaboration. We’re located in the heart of Philadelphia, with views of the city so you can spend your time focusing on what matters most. At Proscia, we don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Proscia is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
Reports to: Head of Global Support
Location: Remote
About Proscia
Proscia is revolutionizing pathology, the last major frontier in healthcare to embrace digital. As a leader in pathology AI software, we are empowering pathologists and scientists to transition from traditional microscope-based workflows to digital, AI-driven approaches, unlocking new possibilities in precision medicine. The digital pathology market is experiencing explosive growth as advances in AI enable unprecedented insights into diseases like cancer. Pathology is central to medicine, and the shift to AI-powered solutions is not just modernizing workflows—it’s transforming how diseases are diagnosed, treated, and understood. Predictions for the future of pathology show a tidal wave of adoption, with experts describing the field as “poised for the next major breakthrough” in healthcare innovation. Backed by over $100 million in funding from leading healthcare and technology investors, Proscia is at the forefront of this revolution. Joining Proscia means being part of a company at the cutting edge of healthcare innovation, where the possibilities are limitless. With the convergence of AI, precision medicine, and digital pathology, we’re not just changing pathology—we’re redefining what’s possible in medicine.
About The Role
Some problems don’t fit in a ticket. A customer’s platform is misbehaving in ways no error message explains, across environments running different versions, and more than one team already has a theory. Those are the problems that land with you. As a Staff Technical Support Engineer, you are one of the most senior technical minds in the Support organization. Your job isn’t to be the last line of defense, it’s to get upstream of the queue: to own Proscia’s hardest customer problems end-to-end, find the systemic faults before they become ticket clusters, and shape how our platform is built, deployed, and supported so the root causes are treated and not just their symptoms. You set the technical bar for the team and partner directly with Engineering, Product, and Customer Success to make what you learn in the field visible for cross-functional use and feed it back into how Proscia works beyond the Support organization.
About You
You’re drawn to the hardest, most ambiguous problems in the room: the multi-system ones with no runbook yet, where three teams have three theories and none of them is quite right. You’d rather find a systemic fault before it becomes ten tickets than be the hero who closes them one at a time. You reason from evidence, not hunches: you gather what the systems actually show, hold competing explanations honestly instead of forcing a tidy story, and follow the thread across code, infrastructure, and live customer environments until the real cause surfaces. You treat AI as a native part of how you work, leveraging the powerful tools available without losing the edge of human judgement required as you correlate across complex systems, reproduce a defect faster than anyone thought possible, or untangle multiple disparate root causes that others see as a unified whole. You don’t hoard what you learn: every hard-won diagnosis becomes something the whole team can stand on next time.
What You’ll Own
- Get ahead of the fire. Hunt down systemic risks and recurring failure patterns before they surface as a wave of tickets. Read the signals across the customer base at scale, stay ahead of every new release, and drive the fixes that quietly remove whole categories of issues.
- Own the hardest investigations. Take the ambiguous, business-critical, multi-system problems no one else can crack. Gather evidence, form and test hypotheses, reproduce the worst defects in lab environments, and follow the thread across application, infrastructure, and live customer environments until the true root cause is undeniable.
- Shape how the platform is built and supported. Turn field patterns into influence: partner with Engineering, Product, and QA on roadmap decisions, define how issues move from customer to engineering, and carry the voice of the customer into product and infrastructure planning.
- Multiply the team. Make everyone around you better. Mentor and coach engineers, lead technical training and pairing, set the standard for documentation and knowledge quality, and build the onboarding and career frameworks the team grows into.
- Lead the deep deployment work. Run the complex upgrades, migrations, and provisioning efforts where both the technical depth and the stakes are highest and where divergent customer environments fly in the face of runbooks and expectations.
- Be there when it counts. When a critical incident hits, you lead: steady, high-touch customer communication and live troubleshooting on major incident calls.
What You Bring
- 8+ years in technical, customer-facing engineering roles, including senior or lead-level scope.
- A drive to solve difficult problems for their own sake – not just because it’s your job, but because you won’t be satisfied until your own curiosity is sated.
- A track record of getting ahead of problems and spotting systemic patterns, driving preventative fixes that measurably cut escalation volume.
- Comfort in ambiguity: you analyze complex, messy data, make high-stakes calls independently, and stay effective where there’s no runbook yet.
- You’ve owned a technical escalation process end-to-end and at scale from customer request through Engineering and Product.
- Deep troubleshooting across distributed systems, with a strong command of network architecture, infrastructure fundamentals and modern remote-diagnosis techniques.
- Advanced knowledge or expertise in some or all of: Linux, Kubernetes, Docker Compose, and SQL.
- You’ve made AI tools a default part of how you investigate, reason, and build, and you know how to validate and constrain what they produce rather than trust it blindly.
- You raise the bar for teams, not just tickets. You’ve mentored, set technical standards that outlast any single problem, and advocated for customers across the entire org chart.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience influencing product or engineering roadmaps from support and customer data.
- Knowledge of digital pathology, or experience in healthcare, regulated, or other mission-critical environments where failure has real consequences.
- Open-source work, side projects, or a portfolio that shows how you think and build.
- A background that spans multiple domains — you’ve reinvented yourself before.
Beyond Just Work
As a company in healthcare, we want our people to be happy and healthy, in and out of the office. In addition to competitive pay, we ensure everyone on our team is supported with savings, schedule, and insurance options that promote long-term health and personal growth. Our office environment is designed for creativity and agility: with walls as notepads and couches for collaboration. We’re located in the heart of Philadelphia, with views of the city so you can spend your time focusing on what matters most. At Proscia, we don’t just accept differences — we celebrate them, we support them, and we thrive on them for the benefit of our employees, our products, and our community. Proscia is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in staff technical support engineer jobs.
- Five or more years of enterprise or platform-level technical support experience
- Deep proficiency in troubleshooting Linux, networking protocols, and cloud environments such as AWS or Azure
- Experience owning tier-3 or tier-4 escalations and driving resolution across engineering and product teams
- Ability to read and interpret code, logs, and API documentation to diagnose root causes
- Strong written communication skills for producing runbooks, postmortems, and customer-facing technical documentation
- Relevant certifications such as CCNA, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or CompTIA Network+
Tips for Your Staff Technical Support Engineer Job Search
Tailor your resume to escalation depth
Staff-level postings expect you to own complex, multi-team escalations. Rewrite bullet points to show how many engineering or product teams you coordinated per incident, not just that you resolved tickets faster than average.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists staff technical support engineer openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Highlight cross-functional influence on your resume
Staff roles are as much about shaping engineering roadmaps as fixing customer problems. Call out moments you filed bugs that changed product direction, wrote internal runbooks adopted by other teams, or drove a postmortem that prevented recurrence.
Filter openings by support tier and product scope
Job titles vary wildly. Search for 'technical support engineer' plus 'tier 3', 'enterprise', or 'escalation' to find roles that match your actual level. Staff positions buried under generic titles are easy to miss without these modifiers.
Prepare a system-diagnosis walkthrough for interviews
Expect at least one live troubleshooting exercise where you diagnose a networking, API, or infrastructure failure out loud. Practice narrating your reasoning step by step, because interviewers are evaluating your process, not just whether you reach the right answer.
Negotiate scope alongside compensation
Staff roles often have vague ownership boundaries. Before accepting an offer, ask which engineering teams you have authority to escalate to directly, what your on-call rotation looks like, and whether the role feeds into an internal engineering career path.
Staff Technical Support Engineer Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most staff technical support engineers?
The companies hiring the most staff technical support engineers right now include University of Utah, WD, and Airbus, with the largest share of openings in Utah, California, and Alabama, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, and telecommunications companies consistently account for the majority of staff-level postings.
How many staff technical support engineer jobs are remote?
About 67% of staff technical support engineer openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting strong employer demand for distributed support coverage. Escalation engineering and platform-focused sub-roles tend to be the most remote-friendly, while positions requiring hands-on hardware diagnostics or on-site customer engagement are more likely to be in-person or hybrid.
How do you become a staff technical support engineer?
Start by building deep expertise in a technical domain such as networking, cloud infrastructure, or enterprise software. Progress through support tiers by consistently taking on complex escalations and documenting solutions others can reuse. Develop cross-functional communication skills by collaborating with engineering and product teams. Pursue certifications that validate your specialization, and seek opportunities to mentor junior engineers or lead process improvements within your support organization.
How do you get hired as a staff technical support engineer with little experience?
Focus on the depth you do have rather than breadth. If you've resolved a particularly complex issue in a previous role, document it in detail on your resume, including the diagnostic steps, teams involved, and outcome. Target companies that promote from within their support tiers, and apply to tier-2 roles explicitly described as a pathway to staff or senior levels so you can build the escalation experience hiring managers expect.
What does the staff technical support engineer interview process look like?
The process typically starts with a recruiter screen focused on your escalation experience and technical background. A hiring manager conversation follows, covering how you've influenced engineering or product decisions. Most loops include at least one live troubleshooting or system-diagnosis exercise, sometimes a take-home scenario. Final rounds often involve cross-functional interviews with engineering or customer success stakeholders who assess your collaboration and communication approach.
Where can I find and apply to staff technical support engineer jobs?
You can find and apply to staff technical support engineer jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search for roles that match your technical background and experience level, then apply directly to each listing that fits.
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