Escalation Engineer - Dallas

Description

Island is shaping the future of work - creating an enterprise workspace for both knowledge workers and agents - where access, security, and AI-powered productivity are built in. Our enterprise agentic control plane boosts productivity across devices, browsers, applications, networks, and data while protecting sensitive information, simplifying access, and helping enterprises scale AI safely.

Behind all of that is a team of people who care deeply about their craft and want to do the biggest and best work of their careers. At Island, character and drive matter more than your resume.

Backed by Coatue Management, Insight Partners, Sequoia Capital, Cyberstarts, and other world-class investors, Island is used by millions of people at some of the planet’s largest enterprises.

Come build with us. Together, we’re changing how the world works.

Responsibilities

• As an Escalation Engineer, you’ll join our growing global Escalation team that sits at the intersection of our customers and our engineering teams. You will deliver exceptional support experiences to some of the world’s largest enterprises by owning complex investigations end-to-end and driving systemic improvements back into the product. Your frontline insights will shape product priorities and directly impact how Fortune 500 enterprises experience Island.
• Own complex investigations end-to-end: Take escalated cases from initial triage through root cause analysis and resolution, spanning browser, network, cloud, and endpoint layers.
• Analyze real technical data: Work directly with support debug packages, Chromium traces, network captures, log platforms, and diagnostic tools to isolate browser behavior, analyze network infrastructure, and correlate logs across distributed systems.
• Collaborate with R&D: Write detailed, evidence-based escalation reports with reproduction steps, logs, and traces that enable engineering teams to act quickly to get issues resolved.
• Be the customer's advocate: Own the communication loop with enterprise customers from escalation through resolution, translating complex technical findings into clear updates.
• Drive systemic improvements & cross-team triage: Identify patterns across escalations, contribute to knowledge base articles and runbooks to reduce future volume, and participate in prioritization discussions where your insight directly influences what gets fixed and when.
• Incident Response & Coordination: You’ll occasionally join high-impact production incidents affecting enterprise customers, partnering with customer-facing teams and Engineering to help coordinate investigation and remediation efforts. You’ll also contribute to post-incident analysis, including root cause analysis (RCA) documentation

Requirements

• 5+ years in a technical support escalation or similar customer-facing technical role
• Networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, TLS/SSL, proxy architectures, VPN concepts
• Web debugging proficiency: Browser developer tools, network traces (HAR, net-export), HTTP/HTTPS analysis
• Log analysis experience: Comfort working with observability platforms (Coralogix, Sentry, New Relic, or similar) to query logs, traces, and metrics
• OS knowledge: Windows and/or macOS internals, enterprise endpoint management concepts
• Cybersecurity awareness: Understanding of enterprise security concepts (zero trust, DLP, secure web gateways, endpoint protection)
• Excellent written communication: Ability to write clear, structured technical reports for both engineering teams and enterprise customers
• Self-directed investigation skills: Comfortable driving investigations autonomously, triangulating across multiple data sources without a predefined playbook
• Composure under pressure: Ability to manage frustrated enterprise stakeholders with empathy and ownership
• Experience with enterprise browser, endpoint security, or SASE/SSE products
• Familiarity with Chromium architecture, extensions, or browser internals
• Identity and authentication expertise (SSO, SAML, OAuth/OIDC, Azure AD, Okta)
• Code reading ability: Can read and follow code in JavaScript, C, Go, or similar languages to understand product behavior
• Scripting ability (Python, PowerShell, Bash) for log parsing or reproduction automation
• Background in incident response
• Experience supporting Fortune 500 or large enterprise customers

Benefits

• Work with cutting-edge technology at the intersection of browser engineering, enterprise security, and zero-trust networking
• Direct mentorship from senior engineers across R&D, with deep exposure to Chromium, distributed networking, and cloud architecture
• Visible customer impact: your investigations directly shape product quality for some of the world's largest organizations
• A collaborative, growth-oriented environment where escalation engineers regularly grow into senior escalation, R&D engineering, product, or technical leadership roles
• Cross-functional exposure across engineering, product, and customer success teams
• Global team collaboration (US and Israel)
• Data Privacy