Technical Support Engineer
About VGS
VGS is the world's leader in payment tokenization, trusted by the most innovative AI and Fortune 500 companies, merchants, banks, and fintechs to power modern payments and agentic commerce.
We tokenize over 9 billion tokens and process more than 10 billion monthly interactions, touching a third of all e-commerce. That scale isn't incidental. It's why leading companies embed our universal token vault and credential management platform directly into their stack, taming the complexity of payment data so they can move faster.
We’re helping businesses unlock new possibilities in an industry that never stops moving. And that takes exceptional people.
About the Role
The majority of this role is hands-on technical work: debugging, troubleshooting network and integration issues, onboarding new customers, and resolving tickets.
The remainder is operational ownership and cross-team coordination. The support team plays a vital role in translating between our Engineering and Go-To-Market teams (including account management and sales). During incidents, outages, escalations, and planned maintenance, you are the primary on-shift decision-maker for PT business hours: you decide whether an incident goes on the public status page, approve the wording of customer notifications, set maintenance timing, and coordinate as needed with the GTM teams so that they are aware of any impacts to their clients. These decisions sit with leadership today, and we want them to be owned within Support.
They come up infrequently but are time-sensitive and customer-visible. You'll have a written scope of what you can approve independently and what requires the manager, expanding as you establish a track record.
What You'll Do
Serve as the senior decision-maker for the Support team during PT business hours. Escalations, judgment calls, and approvals land with you. You're the person on shift with the standing to decide, not to route.
Own incident and maintenance communications. Assess severity and customer impact, decide when to post to the public status page, write or approve the wording, including team drafts, and keep it up to date through resolution.
Set and coordinate maintenance timing. Choose windows based on real customer traffic patterns and regional load, negotiate them with engineering, inform internal client-facing teams about and make sure the notice goes out with enough lead time for customers to plan.
Coordinate multi-team projects where Support is a stakeholder: migrations, deprecations, launches, and customer-specific rollouts. Track dependencies and keep the parties honest about status.
Debug deeply. Reproduce issues with cURL and Postman, read logs, and trace requests across VGS infrastructure, customer systems, and downstream gateways. Diagnose network problems independently: DNS, TCP/IP, routing, timeouts, connection resets, and TLS/SSL handshake failures.
Resolve an issue, find a workaround, or escalate with a bug report good enough for engineering to act on immediately.
Drive mid-tier and long tail customer integrations from kickoff to go-live, coordinating between customer engineers and internal teams.
Write up nontrivial investigations as internal runbooks or public documentation.
Prepare and deliver customer training, building the material where it doesn't exist.
Meet SLA and quality targets, and help the team meet theirs.
Participate in the weekend on-call rotation (every 3rd weekend, Saturday and Sunday, 8:00–20:00 PT). On-call is monitoring coverage, not a full working day — you respond to urgent incidents and time-sensitive requests, while routine tickets wait for the next business day.
What You Bring
5+ years in Technical Support, Solutions Engineering, Technical Account Management, or Technical Project Management — with at least some of it in a senior or lead capacity.
Experience owning customer-facing incident or maintenance communication. You will be writing status page updates, incident notices, and escalation emails. You understand the difference between transparency and alarm.
Strong internal communication skills. You will be the translation layer between customers, VGS account management, and VGS product and engineering. You should be able to operate in different contexts and understand how to translate between the technical, operations, and business contexts of conversations to ensure context is not lost between stakeholders.
Autonomy. You are comfortable deciding and then reporting, rather than checking first. You'll have a few hours of overlap with your manager each day and spend the rest of your shift as the main decision-maker.
Strong command of HTTP, REST APIs, and proxies.
Independent network debugging — DNS, TCP/IP, routing, connectivity, TLS/SSL handshakes. Be ready to describe a specific problem you diagnosed and how you narrowed it down.
English at C1 or above, written and spoken. You'll be writing text that customers and executives read, under time pressure.
Willingness to work PT business hours on a sustained basis.
Nice to Have:
Experience with tokenization, payment processing, cryptology, or security products
BA/BS degree
A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment
Reading and debugging code in at least one of Python, Go, Java, or a similar language. You won't ship production code.
What We Look For In Every Teammate
We're looking for passionate professionals who take pride in their craft and want to help grow a team tackling some of the most critical problems in payments. People who thrive here are curious by nature, unafraid of hard problems, and motivated by the chance to build something that matters at scale.
If you're driven to make a meaningful impact, work at the leading edge of payment technology, and grow your career alongside a team that values ownership, collaboration, and continuous learning, you'll feel right at home at VGS.
How We Work
At VGS, we embrace a remote-first philosophy because we believe flexibility leads to great work and a healthy work-life balance. That said, if you live within 30 miles of one of our office locations, you'll be on a hybrid schedule with some in-person time, because we know there's real value in coming together.
We're not about being in the office every day. We are about connection, collaboration, and the energy that comes from a great brainstorm, a team lunch, or celebrating a big win in person.
Our Benefits
Financial and retirement
Health and Wellness
Insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
HSA/FSA Options
Life and disability insurance
Pet insurance
Vacation and time off
Professional Development
Promote from within
Lunch and learns
Team events and summits
Office life and perks
Equal Opportunity
We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, marital status, physical or mental disability, or other protected classes under all applicable local, state, and federal laws and ordinances (AA/EOE/W/M/Vet/Disabled).
Qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records will be considered for this position in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Where We're Hiring
We are currently hiring in the following locations: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Ontario (Canada), Alberta (Canada), and British Columbia (Canada).
A Note on Our Hiring Process
$80,000 - $120,000 a year
Compensation details: 80000-120000 Yearly Salary
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