VAST Data
Senior Systems Engineer - West Coast
West Coast · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 30, 2026
About the job
Partners with account executives and customers to architect, demonstrate, and plan deployments of VAST’s data platform for enterprise AI, data, and cloud-native workloads.
What you'll do
- Drive technical strategy throughout the sales cycle, including discovery, solution architecture, demonstrations, proof-of-concepts, and deployment planning.
- Advise customers on platform architectures and infrastructure modernization across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and edge environments.
- Translate customer requirements into scalable solutions and collaborate with Product Management and Engineering on product development.
What they ask for
- Strong expertise in Linux operating systems, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems.
- Hands-on production experience with Docker, Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native architectures.
- Understanding of enterprise storage, S3-compatible object storage, and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
- Strong technical communication and consultative selling skills.
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of SQL and data processing technologies such as Apache Spark, Kafka, Trino, or similar platforms.
- Experience with large-scale enterprise environments, ideally petabyte-scale or mission-critical workloads.
Tools
Linux, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, Apache Spark, Kafka, Trino, S3
AI focus
Supports customer AI/ML infrastructure and data pipelines for model training, inference, RAG, and vector search; helps build AI factories and AI workloads.
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