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About Regatta

We are a team of veteran entrepreneurs and software engineers. We have been working together in the field of data management for 20+ years. During that period, we have gained a track record of building successful enterprises that have created outstanding value for team members, investors, and customers. Regatta develops, from scratch, a high-end mission-critical, extreme performance, distributed transactional and analytical database that brings simplicity alongside powerful features.

The Role

The Support Engineer is a customer-facing technical role responsible for leading customers through onboarding, proof-of-concept (POC), deployment, and ongoing operational phases. This role serves as the primary technical point of contact, ensuring successful adoption of Regatta. The Support Engineer manages customer engagements end-to-end, owns technical communication with customers, provides clear and professional guidance including root cause analyses (RCA), workarounds, and best practices, and acts as the central coordination point between customers and internal R&D teams.

Responsibilities

Customer Engagement & Onboarding:

• Act as the primary technical focal point for prospects and customers
• Maintain continuous communication with customers to understand their requirements and technical constraints, and convey these internally to R&D and other stakeholders
• Drive POC and onboarding processes
• Analyze customer workloads, schemas, SQL queries, data types, and access patterns to design effective migration plans to RegattaDB. Identify cases requiring additional R&D investment and proactively surface and escalate gaps
  
  

Deployment & Environment Setup:

• Provide hands-on support for all scenarios, including Regatta Cloud and on-prem deployments
• Serve as a RegattaDB expert, with responsibility for environment preparation and deployment activities as needed.
• Troubleshoot customers' hardware and operating system issues (Linux-based environments)
• Diagnose and resolve Regatta deployment issues, including identifying root causes and applying known fixes or mitigations for common problems
  
  

Ongoing Support & Issue Management:

• Serve as the primary point of contact for customer issues, questions, and operational inquiries
• Lead live debugging and troubleshooting sessions, and analyze system behavior, using Regatta's observability and debuggability tools
• Identify, collect, and perform initial analysis of relevant diagnostic data (logs, metrics, configuration, and workload characteristics) to support effective troubleshooting. Manage support cases end-to-end, including ownership of customer communication, coordination between customers and internal R&D teams, escalation as needed, and coordination of resolution efforts
  
  

Requirements

Must Have

• Customer-facing experience
• Native English proficiency
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts to customers and communicate effectively with engineering teams
• Confident, assertive, and capable of operating under pressure in customer-facing scenarios
• Willingness to support customers across time zones and respond to urgent issues when required
• Prior experience as a software developer or database administrator (DBA), preferably working in production or customer-facing environments
• Strong understanding of databases and SQL
• Hands-on experience working with database systems or similar data-intensive platforms
• Deep familiarity with Linux environments, including troubleshooting OS-level, networking, and system performance issues
  
  

Preferred

• Basic coding or scripting skills (e.g., Python, Bash) to support automation, diagnostics, or tooling
• Deeper technical understanding of storage systems, distributed databases, and database internals