Senior Designated Services Engineer

What you'll be doing:

As a Senior Designated Services Engineer, you will play a key role in ensuring WEKA's Customer Success, contributing to our five-star Gartner reviews. You will work with cutting-edge technologies and top-tier customers, providing technical expertise and strengthening customer relationships.

Collaborating closely with Account Teams, you will gain deep insight into customers' business requirements, technical needs, and system environments. Your role involves resolving technical issues, bridging gaps between customers and Engineering, and ensuring the highest level of service.

As a Senior Designated Services Engineer, you’ll

• Serve as the primary technical liaison between customers and Engineering to address feature gaps, reliability concerns, and documentation improvements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues, escalating to Engineering when necessary.
• Provide feedback to Engineering to enhance product supportability, usability, and serviceability.
• Support pre-sales engineers, partners, and resellers with technical expertise.
• Proactively monitor WEKA systems using remote monitoring tools to identify and address potential issues.
• Own, track, and document customer issues via the ticketing system.
• Communicate clearly and professionally with customers, partners, and internal teams.
• Contribute to knowledge-sharing through internal and customer-facing documentation (FAQs, KB articles).
• Manage multiple projects and support cases concurrently.
• Advocate for customer concerns and represent WEKA externally.
• Develop subject matter expertise in WEKA and customer technologies.
• Participate in on-call, follow-the-sun support rotations as needed.
• Availability for alternative work hours (nights, weekends, holidays) and potential regional/international travel.

Requirements:

• 10+ years in customer-facing technical roles, solving complex enterprise infrastructure issues.
• Ability to diagnose hardware failures, network congestion, and performance bottlenecks.
• Enterprise infrastructure L3 or higher support experience (Linux-based storage, networking, virtualization, cloud, etc.).
• Strong technical troubleshooting in multi-platform, distributed environments.
• Strong understanding of distributed storage systems.
• Expertise in Linux/Unix administration.
• Deep understanding of networking (Infiniband, Ethernet, DPDK, UCX), cloud computing, and distributed storage.
• Proficiency in Python, Bash, and experience with automation scripting for system monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Knowledge of POSIX, NFS, S3 protocols, log management, and monitoring.