Sofar is on a mission to connect the world’s oceans. We design, build, and deploy the largest privately owned network of marine weather sensors to power the world’s best marine weather forecasts. Our data helps our customers to increase efficiency and reduce emissions, delivering tools to governments and other stakeholders to understand impacts of climate change on extreme weather and ocean health. We live on Planet Ocean, and our goal is to create the ocean intelligence needed to ensure a sustainable future.
The Role
We are looking for an experienced Customer Success Engineer to join our team and help drive technical solutions in the maritime and ocean data industry. Wayfinder, our innovative voyage optimization platform, uses proprietary marine weather data and forecasts to deliver real-time efficiency strategies to vessels and shoreside teams. This role offers a unique opportunity for an ambitious engineer with strong technical and customer success experience to make a significant impact within a Bay Area startup.
Impact You’ll Own
- Build tools, provide engineering support and ensure customers have the resources they need for success.
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of customer data, collaborating with ships, operators, and internal teams to solve issues efficiently.
- Work closely with the product and engineering teams to advocate for customer needs and contribute to feature development and process automation.
- Build and maintain documentation, guides, and internal support resources to empower customers to solve problems independently.
- Track and monitor customer issues, ensuring resolution while keeping customers updated on progress.
- Act as the customer advocate, communicating feedback and insights to influence product improvements.
About You
- 3-5+ years of technical customer-facing experience, preferably in maritime, ocean data, or logistics industries.
- Demonstrated success in diagnosing and resolving technical issues in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Strong experience with software systems and APIs; bonus points for familiarity with sensor technologies, IoT, or weather data.
- Solutions-oriented mindset with a passion for delivering exceptional customer experiences.
- Ability to thrive in a cross-functional role, collaborating with product, engineering, and customer teams.
- Eager to learn and master cutting-edge tools, such as Retool, Notion, Shortcut, etc.
- Excellent communication skills with a talent for simplifying complex technical concepts.
- Significant professional experience with Javascript, Python, and Typescript
Bonus Points
- Passion for the ocean and sustainability
Estimated Salary Range:
- $75,000 - $100,000
- The range listed is what we reasonably expect to pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and may be modified in the future. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors that are unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, experience, and equity package.
Sofar's Commitment to Climate Justice
We at Sofar Ocean acknowledge that careers in the marine sciences “... have traditionally been, and remain, non-diverse work environments”, thereby limiting the entry and prosperity of underrepresented groups in the space. (Johri et al., 2021) Many of these same groups are disproportionately affected by climate change, and are often excluded from decision making that directly address their interests and needs.
We are committed to addressing these climate injustices and highly encourage people who identify as women, LGBTQ+, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) to apply.
It is the responsibility of every employee to contribute to a positive work environment through cooperative and professional interactions with co-workers, customers, and vendors.
Equal Employment Opportunity
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, or any other factors prohibited by law.
What We Do
Sofar builds accessible ocean sensing and exploration tools. The mission of the company is to connect the world’s oceans to provide insights to science, society and industry for a more sustainable planet.
