Posted:
8/24/2026, 12:53:31 AM
Location(s):
Toronto, Ontario, Canada ⋅ Ontario, Canada
Experience Level(s):
Senior
Field(s):
IT & Security
Workplace Type:
Remote
As a Senior Technical Success Engineer at Backstory, you will own the hardest issues our largest customers raise. You work them from intake to root cause: reading logs, querying live data stores, and establishing a solution. You will have the internal tooling and data access to investigate properly before ever asking a customer to check something you could have checked yourself. You will have the standing to hold a boundary when Sales, Engineering, or the customer pushes for a shortcut.
This is a role for someone who has outgrown the queue and wants the cases that require judgement rather than throughput. Your findings do not stop at case closure: they become documentation, education, product signal, and better escalations for the whole team. This role trends toward full competency at 12–18 months so the first six months here are disorienting by design. Our platform is deep, the data is enormous, and the challenges can be complex and multifactorial. The people who come through become the ones the rest of the company routes its hardest questions to.
Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Backstory is backed by Y Combinator and Silicon Valley’s top investors, including ICONIQ Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Akkadian Ventures, and Mubadala Capital. Backstory is listed in the top 20 percent of Inc 5000 companies, is a regular leader in our key categories on G2, and is on the Forbes list of America’s Best Startup Employers. For more information, please visit www.backstory.ai.
Website: https://people.ai/
Headquarter Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Employee Count: 251-500
Year Founded: 2016
IPO Status: Private
Last Funding Type: Undisclosed
Industries: Artificial Intelligence (AI) ⋅ Consumer Research ⋅ Enterprise Software ⋅ Intelligent Systems ⋅ Machine Learning
Visa Sponsorship: Sponsors work visas