Customer Support Engineer

VAST Data is looking for a Customer Support Engineer 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 hurricane being created by 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, 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 in computing history.

As a member of the Customer Support Engineering team, you will be regarded as a VAST Data technical expert and involved in daily technical operations and escalations. You will be part of VAST “Flight Crew” for our customers, working with a small team of other Support Engineers and Success Managers to handle all post‑sales activity.

• Build trusted customer relationships based on a customer‑first mindset, technical excellence, and command of VAST product.
• Respond to technical support issues quickly, working hands‑on‑keyboard to solve or elevate while being highly communicative.
• Complete daily technical operations as needed, working through technical issues to full resolution and closure.
• Perform and support field services for customers: installations, upgrades, break‑fix and expansions as needed.
• Submit and manage feature requests and/or bugs into product marketing and development teams.
• Advocate for the priorities of your assigned accounts and continuously track and follow up on bugs, feature requests and escalations.
• Identify opportunities to provide continuous improvement for customers to ensure full adoption and usage of VAST products.
• Support and guide VAST data account teams on account technical status and activities.
• Manage workload to balance meeting KPIs and VAST SLAs while ensuring customer happiness and satisfaction.

• Overall 5+ years of experience in customer‑facing, pre‑sale/post‑sale positions working with complex storage solutions.
• Ability to manage own time and case load with rapidly changing priorities.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the enterprise IT infrastructure, networking and storage space, along with a broad understanding of the enterprise software world.
• Knowledge and working experience in common Linux system administration tasks and Linux OS in general.
• Good understanding of networking, and working experience with network configurations on Linux and network troubleshooting.
• Scripting and programming – bash scripting is required; familiar with one or more other programming languages.
• Significant experience in the areas of file systems and scale‑out NAS implementation.
• Advantage: in‑depth knowledge and hands‑on experience with S3 and high‑performance computing.
• Excellent business written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Advantage: hands‑on lab and hardware management experience.
• Advantage: experience working in a rapidly growing entrepreneurial, dynamic start‑up.
• MS or
  
  B.Sc. in CS, CE, EE or related fields.
• Ability to travel – need to travel around 20% of the time.
• Rotational weekend shift once every 8‑12 weeks and occasional holiday coverage.