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VAST Data

Senior Systems Engineer - Strategic Accounts

VAST Data, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199

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Senior Systems Engineer - Strategic Accounts VAST Data is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer - Strategic Accounts to join our growing team!

This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is at the center of the revolution in artificial intelligence.

"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market." - Forbes VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer‑first mentality, and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills and experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.

Responsibilities

Assist customers with evaluations and benchmarks, system configurations, and system installations.

Work closely with VAST R&D Engineering to define product requirements and usability, including the creation of product specification documents.

Participate in the creation of sales strategy and tactics and take ownership of technical responsibilities within customer accounts.

Demonstrate technical leadership and subject‑matter expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS, and SAN product spaces.

Create architecture “blueprints” for repeatable solutions that the Sales team will deliver to the customer community.

Help develop a dispersed group of system and field engineers.

Consult on how to form, build, and manage a Support organization.

Qualifications

5+ years of experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage to large IT organizations.

Positive energy, optimism, and vision.

Ability to perform in an unstructured environment.

Understanding of classic unstructured data applications and next‑generation analytics and web frameworks.

Preparation and/or delivery of technical product and architecture presentations to customers and trainees.

Knowledge of virtualization, high‑performance networking, and enterprise security.

Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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