The Technical Support Engineer provides second-level support for Coupa's procurement platform, resolves issues, collaborates across teams, and enhances customer experience.
Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.
Why join Coupa?
🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other.
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The Impact of Technical Support Engineer to Coupa:
As a Technical Support Engineer, you play a critical role in delivering a world-class support experience to enterprise customers leveraging Coupa’s industry-leading procurement and spend management platform. You’ll be part of a dynamic global team focused on resolving issues, sharing knowledge, and driving customer success.
In this role, you will leverage a curious and sharp technical acumen to provide customers with expert guidance on best practices. Your primary focus will be direct customer support, case handling and issue resolution. You will be customer facing and work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders to troubleshoot and resolve second-line support requests in a timely and effective manner.
What You'll Do:
- Provide second-level techno-functional support across Coupa’s suite of products, including core procurement applications and acquired solutions aligned to your product vertical.
- Develop a strong understanding of your assigned customers’ business use cases and help them maximize the value of the Coupa platform.
- Handle escalations and provide regular updates to internal and external stakeholders in alignment with Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Identify recurring issues and contribute to root cause analysis and continuous improvement efforts.
- Diagnose and troubleshoot a variety of issues ranging from integration challenges, workflow errors, user configuration problems, to API-related incidents.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, Cloud Operations, and Customer Success teams to ensure high-impact issues are resolved thoroughly and promptly.
- Contribute to the knowledge base by creating high-quality articles, FAQs, and documentation to help scale support and reduce case volume.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest Coupa releases and complete all mandatory CoupaU certifications and training programs.
- Occasionally assist with onboarding support or training sessions for key customers during rollouts or expansions.
What You Will Bring to Coupa:
- 3+ years of experience in enterprise-level technical support, ideally in a SaaS or procurement software environment.
- Strong customer service mindset with the ability to communicate clearly and empathetically.
- Strong knowledge of Linux/Unix-based systems, basic networking concepts, and application architecture (e.g., web servers, middleware, databases).
- Ability to analyze and troubleshoot using tools such as:
- -SQL (for reading data/logs),
- -XML/HTML (for integrations and config files),
- -REST APIs (for basic data validation or testing integrations).
- Familiarity with procurement or financial processes (e.g., PO lifecycle, invoicing, 3-way match) is a plus.
- Excellent documentation skills and experience using ticketing systems like Zendesk, ServiceNow, or Salesforce Service Cloud.
- Comfortable working in a 24x5 support model, with occasional on-call rotations for weekends or holidays.
Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees.
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Top Skills
HTML
Linux
Rest Apis
Salesforce Service Cloud
Servicenow
SQL
Unix
XML
Zendesk
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