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# Customer Support Engineer II at Ocient Inc.

- **Company:** Ocient Inc.
- **Location:** United Kingdom / Europe
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-24
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/ocient-inc-/am9icG9zdDrYQgVf8feXkDqj98VwSx5k

## Job description

Job Title: Customer Support Engineer II Location: Remote (UK Only)

- Please note that we are not able to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants will need to have the right to work in the UK, both now and for the duration of employment, in order to be considered.* Hiring Manager: Senior Support Manager, UK Estimated salary range: £81,360 to £100,000
- The salary offered for this position will be based on a candidate’s experience and skill demonstrated during interviews and other evaluations

Position Overview:

The Customer Support Engineer II (CSE II) independently owns the diagnosis and resolution of complex customer issues across the OcientAIQTM Unified Data Platform, acts as a technical liaison between customers and Engineering, and contributes to customer onboarding, deployment buildouts, and support tooling development. This role combines growing technical depth in distributed systems, SQL, and Linux administration with strong customer-facing skills and a proactive approach to improving the customer experience and support practice at Ocient.

The CSE II will be part of the team on-call rota and must be comfortable working shift patterns.

Ocient is a remote-first company, meaning this role is 100% home working. Prior experience in a hybrid or remote-working setup would therefore be beneficial.

Core Responsibilities

- Diagnose and resolve complex customer issues in a distributed database environment, developing detailed Root Cause Analyses and Corrective Action Plans.
- Respond to customer questions through phone calls, help tickets, and email, managing multiple issues simultaneously while meeting agreed service levels.
- Assist in customer onboarding, training, installation, and environment buildout for both on-premise and Ocient-managed solutions; access customer datacentre environments remotely to support deployment and configuration activities.
- Perform SQL and query performance troubleshooting and tuning against large data sets, supporting customers in optimising their Ocient environments.
- Ocient uses AI to assist in troubleshooting complex customer problems. The CSE II should be comfortable using AI-assisted troubleshooting, creating and using AI skills, and validating outputs before relying on them for Root Cause Analysis (RCA) or communications with internal and external customers.
- Administer and monitor Ocient managed database solutions and related software dependencies (e.g. kafka, ceph); proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact customers.
- Create and maintain documentation for major installations, known issues, and workarounds, contributing to the customer-facing knowledge base.
- Provide product and customer feedback to Engineering to support continuous platform improvement.
- Exercise sound judgement in issue ownership and escalation, knowing when to continue investigating independently and when to engage Engineering, while clearly communicating customer impact and technical findings.

Ideal Qualifications

- UK citizen holding a British passport
- Holds, or has previously recently held, UK Security Clearance
- Typically 5+ years of experience in a similar technical role, including 3+ years of experience in service monitoring, execution, and advanced troubleshooting
- Proficiency in Linux operating systems, with daily hands-on use
- Experience with distributed SQL systems, including administration, query writing, troubleshooting, and performance investigation
- Practical knowledge of x86 server hardware
- Strong customer-facing experience, with the ability to communicate technical issues and findings clearly to a range of audiences
- A curious, enquiring mindset with strong structured problem-solving and investigative skills

An Exceptional Candidate Will Have

- Exposure to databases or data warehousing environments
- AI experience in complex troubleshooting environments
- Comfortable working shift rotas and participating in on-call coverage
- Hybrid or remote work experience preferred
- Knowledge of Kafka and S3-compatible object storage

## About Ocient Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ocient delivers OcientAIQ, a unified data platform that brings trusted agentic AI directly to petabyte-scale enterprise data without moving it across fragmented systems.
- **Entity Type**: Private (venture-backed) – total funding $156.5M
- **Headquarters**: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Greg Papadopoulos (Co-Founder & VP of Customer Success & Quality), Joe Jablonski (Co-Founder & Chief Solutions Officer)

## Core Business
- Primary industries: Data & AI software, large-scale data analytics, agentic AI infrastructure
- Target customers: B2B Enterprise – organizations with massive datasets (government, national security, financial services, telecom, energy)
- Mission: “To deliver trusted agentic AI solutions that work in production at petabyte scale – helping the organizations doing the most consequential work in the world realize the full value of their data.”

## Products & Services
- **OcientAIQ™**: Complete ecosystem for building and deploying trusted agentic AI solutions at petabyte scale. Brings AI directly to data with built-in governance, compliance, and deployment options. Handles structured and semi-structured data in a single platform. (SaaS / platform)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue ~$60M; total funding $156.5M (Series A, Series B, debt financing)
- **Notable Investors**: Greycroft, OCA Ventures, In-Q-Tel, Buoyant Ventures, TechNexus Venture Collaborative
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount 185 (+33.3% YoY); actively hiring with 10 open positions (+900% YoY in job postings); remote-first global workforce across 11 countries; carbon-neutral operations including LEED-certified data center; LinkedIn followers grew 29.6% YoY

## Competitive Advantages
- Founded by the team that built Cleversafe (acquired by IBM) – deep domain expertise in petabyte-scale data systems
- Purpose-built for organizations that cannot afford AI errors (national security, critical infrastructure)
- Unified platform eliminates data movement, reducing cost and latency at extreme scale
- Built-in trust and compliance controls for regulated industries
- Remote-first, carbon-neutral culture attracts top engineering talent

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling OcientAIQ ecosystem for enterprise adoption
- Expanding agentic AI capabilities (trusted, production-ready)
- Continuing international growth (India, Canada, Europe, Singapore)
- Heavy investment in engineering talent: open roles in distributed systems, ML, geospatial, SRE, QA automation, product management

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Craft-driven, autonomous, collaborative, inclusive, and ethical. “We are industry-leading experts … driven to deliver the best and brightest solutions.”
- **Work model**: Remote-first – team distributed across 11 countries
- **Impact**: Work on problems that protect networks, secure nations, and power the global economy
- **Compensation**: Sr. Software Engineer ~$172K/year; Software Engineer I ~$97K/year (LinkedIn data)
- **Perks**: Carbon-neutral operations, LEED-certified data center, commitment to UN Sustainable Development Goals
- **Rating**: 4.1/5.0 on LinkedIn (35 reviews) – culture and career score 4.2, work-life 4.1
- **Notable alumni destinations**: Google, Amazon, MongoDB, Citadel Securities

## Sources
1. [ocient.com/careers](https://ocient.com/careers/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/ocient](https://linkedin.com/company/ocient)
3. [ocient.com/about-ocient](https://ocient.com/about-ocient/)
4. [jobs.gem.com/ocient-inc-](https://jobs.gem.com/ocient-inc-)

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