Manager, Customer Engineering

• →Team Management
• →Hire, onboard, and develop the Customer Engineers
• →Set clear goals and growth plans for the team
• →Own performance management, which includes calibration and feedback
• →Manage team capacity and workload distribution across tickets and projects
• →Technical Ownership
• →Step into complex tickets and escalations
• →Serve as the final technical escalation point when a Senior CE needs backup
• →Draft, review, and merge PRs where applicable 
• → Quality and Trend Analysis
• →QA a sample of tickets regularly to ensure resolution quality, tone and adherence to playbooks
• →Track recurring issues and support trends across the team to update processes, tooling or documentation
• →Report on team health metrics (resolution time, ticket volume, escalation rates) to leadership
• →Process and Enablement
• →Build and maintain the team’s operating rhythm - ticket triage, escalation paths, on-call coverage
• →Own troubleshooting playbooks, onboarding guides, and internal documentation
• →Identify where AI or automation can reduce manual ticket work and drive adoption 
• →Cross-Functional Partnership
• →Represent Customer Engineering in planning and prioritization discussions with Engineering and Product
• →Advocate for customer-driven product improvements based on patterns the team surfaces

• 5+ years in a customer-facing technical role (Customer Engineering, Technical Support, Solutions Engineering, or similar) with hands-on experience troubleshooting production issues for enterprise customers 
• 2+ years directly managing a technical team, with accountability for hiring, performance management, and career development
• Comfortable reading code across our stack, with a habit of continuously learning the product deeply enough to identify root cause and hold credible technical conversations with Engineering.
• Working knowledge of Git-based workflows, CI/CD, and standard engineering practices (code review, testing, deployment)
• Track record of using ticket and support trend data to drive concrete process, tooling, or documentation improvements
• Experience partnering cross-functionally with Engineering and Product, translating customer patterns into actionable feedback
• Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable serving as the final technical escalation point on high-stakes customer issues

• Experience in a B2B SaaS or developer tooling company, ideally supporting technical personas (engineers, platform teams, SREs)
• Experience building or improving support tooling, automation, or AI-assisted workflows
• Experience scaling a support or customer engineering team through a growth stage

💰 Compensation

• Starting Salary Range: $150,000 - $175,000
• Competitive Equity Package

*Our job titles may span more than one career level. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. This role is eligible for equity and benefits.

🌴 Perks & Benefits

• National medical, dental & vision insurance (we cover 100% for employees!)
• Unlimited PTO & flexible working hours
• 401k plan
• Gender-neutral parental leave
• $1000 yearly Learning & Development stipend
• $400 monthly perks stipend (use it on anything)
• Pet Insurance

Cortex is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Cortex is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status. For individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation, please email people@cortex.io