MinIO is the industry leader in high-performance object storage and the company behind the world’s fastest, most widely deployed object store, powering production infrastructure for more than half of the Fortune 500, including 9 of the 10 largest global automakers and all 10 of the largest U.S. banks. Our enterprise offering, AIStor, is engineered to handle the scale, speed, and pressure of modern AI and analytics, from terabytes to exabytes, all in a single namespace.
As a Customer Engineer, you will be responsible for owning the end-to-end technical relationship with customers and interfacing with the MinIO engineering and support team to assure a world-class experience to customers. You will work closely with the rest of the Customer Experience team along with the Engineering, Support, and Sales teams to assure customers are successful in POC, onboarding, production, and beyond.
What You Will Do:
- Build and own technical relationships with customers to gain trust and become a customer advocate.
- Develop strategies to improve the technical enablement and onboarding of customers.
- Strategize and work with customers on the journey to production while minimizing the time and friction.
- Develop scalable and repeatable playbooks.
- Monitor customer health and track progress against strategy and priorities.
- Work with the business team to maintain and grow customers organically.
Your Skills and Experience:
- 8-15 years of relevant work experience in core engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), solutioning, and customer success in cloud-native space.
- Expertise in working with customers while influencing, empathizing, building relationships, and managing expectations.
- Out-of-the-box thinker and problem solver, driven by a bias for action. Solutioning and architecture mindset with deep, technical, engineering, and debugging skills.
- Must be an expert in Kubernetes and Linux troubleshooting and administration.
- Knowledge of cloud compute, virtualization, networking, security, monitoring, storage technologies, data protection, and disaster recovery procedures in a cloud environment.
- Hands-on with on-prem and cloud-based deployment, configuration, and maintenance.
- Scripting knowledge using shell, python, etc. Experience with automation using Ansible, Terraform, or Chef.
- Must have a strong familiarity with broad set of cloud technology and architecture like big data, analytics, hadoop, AI/ML, SaaS, object storage, S3, databases (MongoDB, SQL Server, Snowflake), multi-cloud, datastore, data lake, software-defined storage, Git, logging, monitoring, CI/CD etc.
- Must be keen on learning new platforms and technologies quickly in order to become a subject matter expert.
- Motivated self-starter who thrives on working in complex and challenging environments of a rapidly evolving business.
- Exceptional analytical, project management, organizational, and interpersonal skills with the ability to take initiative as well as balance multiple priorities. Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, work on tight deadlines, and deliver on schedule.
- Experience and comfort working in a startup environment. Must be willing and able to work in a highly dynamic team environment.
- Excel at cross-group collaboration with experience gaining consensus and driving deliverables with individuals inside and outside the organization.
MinIO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
