Senior Systems Engineer, VAST Data
Strategic Accounts
AI operating system
Open for applications
AI operating system
1001+ employees
Open for applications
1001+ employees
Company mission
To empower intelligent agents to store, think, communicate, and act.
Role
Who you are
- 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
What the job involves
- 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 in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence
- Assist customers with evaluations and benchmarks, system configurations, and system installations
- Work closely with VAST R&D Engineering in helping to define product requirements and usability, including the creation of product specification documents
- Participate in the creation of sales strategy and tactics and takes 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
- Creation of architecture “blueprints” for repeatable solutions that the Sales team will deliver to the customer community
- Help with the development of a dispersed group of system and field engineers
- Consult on how to form and build and manage a Support organization
Our take
VAST Data is building what you might call the plumbing for the AI era - a purpose-built data platform that unifies storage, compute, and data services in a single, scalable system. With its disaggregated, shared-everything (DASE) architecture, it allows companies to scale their storage independently from compute, meaning AI workloads can grow without behind held back by infrastructure bottlenecks. And their platform delivers flash-speed performance, multi-protocol access, and enterprsie-grade reliability, all while keeping costs reasonable.
This architecture is especially relevant now and the company has recently partnered with GMI CLoud as a key data infrastructure provider for GMI's ambitious new "AI factory" in Taiwan. The data centre is expected to house 7,000 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUS and will lean on VAST's exabyte-scale storage to handle data for model training, inference, and real-time processing.
On top of this, VAST has secured some major partnerships and deals that really position it strongly for the future of AI infrastructure. In November 2025, it struck a $1.17B agreement with CoreWeave, making VASt the primary data foundation for their GPU cloud. It also expanded its collaboration with Google CLoud to offer its AI Operating System as a fully managed service, allowsing global data access across on-prem and cloud environments using VAST DataSpace. These moves suggest VAST isn't just keeping up with AI demand but shaping the infrastructure that will power the next generation of large-scale, distributed intelligent systems.
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Dec 2023
$118m
SERIES E
May 2021
$83m
SERIES D
Total funding: $381m
Leadership
Renen Hallak
(Co-Founder & CEO)BA and an MSc in Computer Science. Prior to co-founding VAST, they led the architecture and development of an all flash array at XtremIO as VP of R&D.
Shachar Fienblit
(Co-FOunder & Chief R&D Officer)BSC in Computer Software Engineering. Prior to co-founding VAST, they were the VP of Engineering at Kaminario before being promoted to CTO.
Jeff Denworth
(Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding VAST, they were the SVP of Marketing at CTERA Networks and DDN Storage.
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