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TITLE: SUSTAINING ENGINEER
SALARY: COMPETITIVE, DOE
LOCATION: SAN JOSE CA

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

Since 1998, the company has provided reliable products, services and solutions to help enterprises achieve unmatched productivity and profitability from their data.

The Company changes the economics of network storage by delivering products that protect customers' storage investment and scale to meet the explosive growth of enterprise data. The company’s proprietary products adapt to changing application and capacity needs, simplifying management, accelerating productivity and protecting long-term investments.

The revolutionary product Architecture and product File System - the first file system entirely in hardware - deliver unparalleled performance and scalability that not only keeps pace with current networking infrastructures, but also scale to meet the networking speeds of the future.

The company’s goal is to provide our customers the most scalable network storage solutions alongside the best total cost of ownership with superior return on investment.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The successful candidate will be providing Level 3 support, as a part of the Sustaining Engineering team, for the company’s proprietary enterprise NAS servers while serving as an interface between the support and development organizations.

This position serves as the hub between field product support and ongoing product development/maintenance of field deployments; additionally, provides direction on software and firmware field upgrades, documentation for support, and training to the support team for the duration of the product (and major sub-component) lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

Primary:

  • Provide in-depth technical assistance, primarily with storage related issues
  • Respond to field support escalations and provide troubleshooting/diagnostic assistance
  • Developing diagnostic methods and tools required to improve troubleshooting and repair
  • Interface with storage vendor engineering resources as needed on complex issues
  • Utilization of lab resources to replicate issues, and provide in-house diagnostic guidance
  • Provide recommendations and feedback to development for ongoing product diagnostic improvements
  • Work with existing ticket tracking systems for field engagements for escalated issues
  • Development of necessary documentation and delivery of training to the field support team
  • Serve as a mentor during field personnel rotations into the Sustaining Engineering team
  • At times, on-call after hours to provide support

Secondary:

  • Assistance with filesystem troubleshooting and repair on RAID storage
  • Assistance with troubleshooting NAS server interfacing the storage - networking (client system connections, TCP/IP, switches, routers, and affiliated troubleshooting) - protocols (CIFS, NFS, NDMP, iSCSI)
  • Assistance with fibre channel tape library troubleshooting

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

  • Minimum of 5 years experience providing highly technical support of high-end fibre channel RAID storage systems
  • Excellent fibre channel storage troubleshooting and diagnostic skills
  • Thorough understanding of FC/SCSI storage/switch protocols and application thereof in solving storage problems (including the ability to operate a fibre channel analyzer)
  • Ability to write scripts for testing and troubleshooting
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills
  • Experience with UNIX and Windows platforms
  • Preferred Experience:
  • Exposure to working with file systems on RAID storage
  • Exposure to fibre channel tape storage products and tiered storage implementations
  • Experience with NAS products - gigabit networking (client system interactions - Windows, UNIX, Apple) - protocols (CIFS, NFS, iSCSI, NIS, LDAP) over TCP/IP - backup systems with NDMP
  • Experience with complex software systems and software development methodologies

 

EDUCATION:

BS in computer science or engineering field

 


TITLE: SENIOR FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER
REPORTS TO: DIRECTOR OF CUSTOMER SERVICE
SALARY: $80-110K, DOE
LOCATION: RESTON, VA / WASHINGTON DC

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

The Company is the independent leader of storage security, providing transparent, wire-speed protection of storage data regardless of application, transport, media type, or location. The Company's award-winning appliances automate the encryption of data that is either in-flight over a storage network or at-rest on disk, virtual tape, or tape media. With its unique, three-tiered approach to global key management, the Company enables organizations to securely automate the recovery of information from primary or secondary storage. Because the Company appliances are purpose-built to meet the unique requirements of storage applications, customers can deploy a storage security solution with minimal operational complexity and impact at the lowest cost.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Sr. Field Service Engineer will be the primary field support for the company’s customers in the East. The Sr. Field Service Engineer will be responsible for working directly with customers to solve technical issues with the company’s products and with third-party products with which their products interact. This means all aspects of the storage systems, fabric, network, and backup applications. This position is also responsible for new installations and upgrades. Significant amount of on-site work will be required, meaning domestic travel, with some international travel.

Indirect support activities include:

  • Provide backup to other support engineers
  • Monitor specific bugs for customers
  • Standby for after hours support calls

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

  • 8-10 years of Support engineering experience, with focus in storage
  • Superior customer facing skills
  • Troubleshooting skills
  • Strong SAN and Storage background
    • Tape systems knowledge
    • Disk and RAID systems knowledge
    • Familiarity with a variety of backup applications and operating systems (Open Systems, Windows, AIX, AS400 with a slant toward device driver configuration knowledge)
    • SCSI bus interface, configuration, cabling, and termination
    • Fibre Channel general knowledge
    • Fabric configuration and zoning knowledge
    • Bridges for SCSI to FC
    • Able to gather traces using Fibre Channel and SCSI analyzers when necessary
  • Prior experience in Technical Support for storage
  • Senior Level, Self Starter
  • Excellent written and oral communications skills
  • Willingness to travel in the support of customers

EDUCATION:

BS in related field


TITLE: SENIOR SOLUTION ENGINEER
REPORTS TO: DIRECTOR, TECHNICAL SUPPORT
SALARY: UP TO 110K PLUS 10-20% BONUS BASED ON CORP AND PERSONAL PERFORMANCE
LOCATION: SAN MATEO, CA 94403
H1-B: YES, RELOCATION: NO

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

The Company is a leader in IP SAN solutions for the Enterprise with its open, network-centric, intelligent storage services platforms. The Company’s proprietary product allows customers to connect any kind of storage to any server over standard IP networks. The company is exploiting the huge opportunity for iSCSI-based storage solutions, a $4.5 Billion market by 2009 according to IDC.

The Company was founded in 2000 and has 700 customer installations worldwide. It is privately held and has blue chip investors: Sequoia Capital, Foundation Capital and the RAD Group. Worldwide headquarters are in San Mateo, CA; Research and Development is in Tel Aviv, Israel. The company currently has about 70 employees worldwide.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Technical Support and Escalation engineer will provide technical support to both end user and re-sellers.

The Technical Support and Escalation will ensure the creation, qualification and resolution or proper escalation of trouble tickets created as a result of proactive systems monitoring, inbound e-mail and customer calls for supportive services.

He/she will work with customers for troubleshooting, testing and resolving other customer site issues.

He/she will be responsible for managing new installations, including integration of the Company’s proprietary product with storage and servers in the enterprise data center and other customer environments.

Display a solid work ethic as well as significant drive, focus, enthusiasm, professionalism and attention to detail while carrying out the functions of the position.

Primary Duties Include:

  • Provide technical support to direct users and Channel partners
  • Lead ongoing support processes definition improvements and implementation
  • Troubleshooting installations and operational errors
  • Managing new customer site installations
  • Managing escalation to R&D resources when required
  • Visiting customer sites when problems need to be resolved on site
  • Taking responsibility for Level 1 and higher support tickets
  • Contributing to the corporate knowledge base

Secondary Duties Include:

  • Problem validation and testing in our testing lab
  • Perform application validation and interoperability tests
  • Prepare technical documents, reports and notes


    Technical support is a 24 hour x 365 day operation. All support representatives are required to carry a company provided cell phone for emergency or on-call off-hour technical support, TS personnel must also have access to the web though we will provide the mobile PC. Must be able to work any schedule to fill the requirement for 24-hour support.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

  • Deep networking knowledge and experience required (IP, Ethernet, TCP, security, LAN, MAN, WAN)
  • 3+ years of network solutions/administration experience
  • Strong knowledge of network infrastructures (LAN, WAN) in Linux/Unix/Windows environment
  • Strong knowledge of network hardware and software configuration, with the ability to scope the problems and issues that are specific to large enterprise networks
  • Data storage industry experience (Disk, SCSI, FC, FC Fabric, NAS, Tape, and Backup)
  • Problems escalations, working with engineering teams, previous help desk / tech. support experience
  • Operating Systems administration: include Windows 2000/ 2003/XP Exchange, Databases, Oracle, Linux, Solaris, Novell
  • Applications administration: Exchange, MSSQL, ORACLE
  • Programming and scripting
  • Excellent communication skills, oral and written
  • Fluent in English and any other language is an advantage

EDUCATION:

BS/BA in Computer Science or related degree

 

TITLE: SENIOR CUSTOMER SERVICES ENGINEER
LOCATION: REDWOOD CITY, CA
NO RELOCATION, NO H1-B

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

The Company designs, develops and delivers storage capacity planning software for enterprise IT departments. The company’s proprietary storage solution automates the critical, ongoing IT process of matching the supply of storage hardware infrastructure with the projected demand from enterprise applications. Done right, the result is efficient capital spending and avoidance of emergency fire drills. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, and is led by a team of proven innovators in enterprise management and storage infrastructure software markets. Customers include financial services, technology, life sciences, and telecommunications enterprises. The company has attracted $30 million in backing from top-tier investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, ComVentures and Benchmark Capital.

POSITION SUMMARY:

  • Duties generally include but are not limited to the following:
  • Deliver world-class customer service and build customer satisfaction and loyalty
  • Provide effective and timely resolution of customer issues and questions, with the highest degree of courtesy and professionalism
  • Work with the Company software development organization to comply with company service level agreements in regards to customer response and resolution timeframes
  • Deliver remote and sometimes on-site value-added professional services
  • Utilize software systems to track customer issues, document service level compliance, and software defects
  • Continually maintain working knowledge of all company products and services
  • Make product recommendations according to customer’s needs

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

  • A minimum of 5 years of related experience in customer or professional services
  • Knowledgeable of storage administration and system and network management/administration
  • Interpersonal skills sufficient to develop and maintain cooperative working relationships with both customers and fellow associates, along with the willingness to be a team player
  • A good listener
  • Analytical skills sufficient to identify and resolve customer problems
  • Ability to deal calmly and effectively with situations via telephone while maintaining and promoting a positive image of the Company
  • Verbal and written communication skills sufficient to present information and solutions in a professional manner
  • Ability to proficiently use a Windows based system
  • Strong problem solving skills

EDUCATION:

  • BS, Engineering or Computer Science


TITLE: TECHNICAL SUPPORT ENGINEER - POST SALES TECHNICAL IMPLEMENTATION / INSTALLATION
SALARY: UP TO 105K
REPORTS TO: TECHNICAL SUPPORT MANAGER
LOCATION:
BASED IN NY/NJ WITHIN 1HR COMMUTE TO DOWNTOWN NEW YORK CITY (Will mainly cover Eastern USA and also cover Southeast and Americas/Global as needed)
THIS POSITION REQUIRES UP TO 75% TRAVEL, OFTEN AT SHORT NOTICE.
BILINGUAL LANGUAGE SKILLS IN SPANISH/ENGLISH IS HIGHLY DESIRABLE


COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

The Company is the leading provider of infrastructure systems that enable file based workflows for the production, storage, delivery and distribution of digital media. Based on a clear understanding of how media, storage and facility operations interrelate, The company's products are designed specifically as a video server infrastructure for companies that produce and distribute audio and video content for television and the Internet. The company's Media Server System provides the most cost-effective and scalable video server infrastructure for the professional television industry, where customers are implementing new revenue streams and channels for digital applications.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a part of the Field Technical Engineering team at the company you will be responsible for performing installations, integration, configuration, commissioning, testing, training, tuning, troubleshooting, and break/fix activities for company products to broadcast customers within the Americas region. The location for this position should be in the East Coast of the United States, with primary regional responsibility in the Eastern Region of the United States and with the understanding that as a regional resource, support may be required at customer locations anywhere within the Americas region (North & South America).

The regional Technical Support Engineers (TSE) are the primary resource for on-site customer support and troubleshooting, duties include, but are not limited to the following:
  • Delivering technical support to the company's customers in the Americas region, both on-site and remotely
  • Resolving equipment performance related issues within company equipment and in conjunction with company application partners, utilizing the company's technical issue logging/escalation systems as appropriate
  • Provision of commissioning and customer acceptance testing
  • Participation in the company's 24/7 Global Support Hotline, as required
  • Provision of technical and operational training to the company's customers and partners
  • Use of the company's internal customer relationship management and equipment/service databases to ensure accurate logging of relevant details
  • Work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors
  • Provide "on-site" and/or "remote" application, operating system, database, and hardware support
  • Investigate, diagnose and resolve customer issues on site within a timely manner and if needed escalate problems for assistance
  • Use independent, professional judgment to avoid errors that would impact customer service.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

As a key member of the Field Technical Engineering team, you must have 5 plus years industry experience in providing post-sales field service and technical support to customers within the Television Broadcast Industry in the Americas.

The successful candidate will also have the following skills:

  • Excellent customer relationship, an energetic team player, and an ability to maturely and professionally manage and triage customer service incidents and escalations is required
  • Experience in supporting products from the Digital Video/Broadcast and IT Storage Industries is a major plus
  • Knowledge of digital video and audio broadcast technology and operational practices, experience with products that transport, encode, compress, store and play out audio and video media for the Broadcast Industry, with a strong emphasis on a systems perspective
  • Some pre-sales technical support will/may also be required to augment pre-sales technical team in the region
  • Working knowledge and/or experience with audio/video compression formats (601, DV, MPEG2, DVB-ASI, HD, AES/EBU Embedded audio) and familiarity with a wide range of equipment within the broadcast and multimedia industry
  • Working knowledge/experience of disc storage, including; NAS, SAN, SCSI, Fiber Channel, RAID
  • Networking knowledge/experience with Ethernet, routers, switches, hubs, TCP/IP, CIFS, and NFS
  • Working knowledge/experience with 3rd party broadcast products, including; Real Time MPEG Encoders, Automation Systems (Sundance, Harris, Omnibus, etc.), Non-linear Edit Suites (Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid, etc.), Video Switchers / Routers (Sony, Grass Valley, Leitch, etc.)

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and or Computer Science

 

TITLE: SR SUPPORT ENGINEER-STORAGE
REPORTS TO: SUPPORT MANAGER/DIRECTOR
SALARY: up to 85k
LOCATION: IRVINE CA
This position may require travel to customer and non-customer sites in North America, Far East and Europe (15%).

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

The company is committed to being an innovative technology leader in storage networking technologies. The company leverages its core competency in designs of massive parallel processing, ASIC, storage and networking to deliver a line of robust, next generation IP Storage products. This Company provides ultra fast performance, high availability network storage solutions for enterprise level SAN and NAS storage networking applications. The company's IP Storage products deliver very reliable, available and scalable capabilities at affordable prices. The company focuses its highly available solutions on server and storage OEM customers enabling them to deliver cutting-edge, value-added storage networking features such as link aggregation, failover, QoS, volume virtualization, and other differentiating next-generation iSCSI enhancements.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Company is seeking a Senior Support Engineer to be part of a small team that includes Technical Marketing, Product Support and FAE support providing an interface to our customers. This position will provide day-to-day proprietary storage hardware, software and firmware support and serve as companies point for technical communications and product support. As a Senior Support Engineer, this position will be providing problem analysis and resolution, user/customer training by having a strong understanding of the company's proprietary product capability. In addition, this individual will provide a resource for Interoperability Testing of the company's proprietary product.

  • Serves as a principal point of expertise for the unit on all technical issues associated with the company product and works with internal teams to provide product information, content and or provide resolution to a problem. The knowledge base will include an understanding of event logs, product capability and internal product knowledge.
  • Coordinates support activities with other members of the support organization, providing technical information on product and system capability assuring timely and accurate resolution of customer issues/problems and concerns with respect to company technology.
  • Capability and product knowledge to prepares and delivers formal and informal training and instruction to the company's customer base. In addition, participates in the creation and maintenance of user manuals, handbooks, Technical Bulletins, and content guides as appropriate.
  • Provides resource to the Interoperability Testing, knowledge base to assure product and the capability to implement tests that reproduce customer issues occurred in the field.
  • Performs miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

  • At least 5 years of work experience that can be demonstrated to be applicable to the duties listed in the job description.
  • Strong knowledge of Storage Technology; SAN, RAID, iSCSI and FC infrastructure
  • Knowledge of Network GbE and 10GbE infrastructures
  • Strong knowledge and ability to understand product attributes and technology. The ability to work with Error Logs, Product Symptoms and provide the ability to Root Cause the system prior to sending the issue to Engineering. This individual is the team's "product expert".
  • Ability to analyze complex problems, Company Products and Storage systems utilizing the Company Products
  • Ability to perform acceptance and problem resolution testing on the company product as it interfaces to computer systems, applications, and hardware
  • Ability to foster a cooperative work environment, partner with team members
  • Strong interpersonal skills, flexibility, and customer service orientation
  • Strong verbal and written communication. Ability to prepare and write technical procedures, communicate effectively, orally and in writing, MS Word and MS Project skills.

EDUCATION:

BS in Computer Science or Engineering


TITLE: LEVEL 2 TECHNICAL SUPPORT ENGINEER


SALARY: UP TO 105K
START: ASAP
REPORTS TO: DIRECTOR OF SERVICE
LOCATION: (2 OPENINGS-- 1 IN BEAVERTON, OR, 1 IN SUNNYVALE, CA)
NO H1-B, NO RELOCATION

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

The Company is the leading provider of infrastructure systems that enable file based workflows for the production, storage, delivery and distribution of digital media. Based on a clear understanding of how media, storage and facility operations interrelate, The company's products are designed specifically as a video server infrastructure for companies that produce and distribute audio and video content for television and the Internet. The company's Media Server System provides the most cost-effective and scalable video server infrastructure for the professional television industry, where customers are implementing new revenue streams and channels for digital applications.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a part of the Field Technical Engineering team at the company you will be responsible for performing installations, integration, configuration, commissioning, testing, training, tuning, troubleshooting, and break/fix activities for company products to broadcast customers within the Americas region. The location for this position could possibly be anywhere within the Continental United States, however, the primary regional responsibility will be in the Central Region of the United States, with the understanding that as a regional resource, support may be required at customer locations anywhere within the Americas region (North & South America). The regional Technical Support Engineers (TSE) are the primary resource for on- site customer support and troubleshooting, duties include, but are not limited to the following:

  • * Delivering technical support to the company's customers in the Americas region, both on- site and remotely
  • Resolving equipment performance related issues within company equipment and in conjunction with company application partners, utilizing the company's technical issue
  • Logging/escalation systems as appropriate
  • Provision of commissioning and customer acceptance testing
  • Participation in the company's 24/7 Global Support Hotline, as required
  • Provision of technical and operational training to the company's customers and partners. Use of the company's internal customer relationship management and equipment/service databases to ensure accurate logging of relevant details
  • Work on complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of multiple factors
  • Provide "on-site" and/or remote application, operating system, database, and hardware support * Investigate, diagnose and resolve customer issues on site within a timely manner and if needed escalate problems for assistance
  • Use independent, professional judgment to avoid errors that would impact customer service

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

As a key member of the Field Technical Engineering team you must have:

  • 5 plus years industry experience in providing post-sales field service and technical support to customers within the Television Broadcast Industry in the Americas region
  • Excellent customer relationship, an energetic team player, and an ability to maturely and professionally manage and triage customer service incidents and escalations is required
  • Experience in supporting products from the Digital Video/Broadcast and IT Storage Industries
  • Knowledge of digital video and audio broadcast technology and operational practices, experience with products that transport, encode, compress, store and play out audio and video media for the Broadcast Industry, with a strong emphasis on a systems perspective
  • Some pre-sales technical support will/may also be required to augment pre-sales technical team in the region
  • Applicable multi-language communication skills a plus
  • Working knowledge and/or experience with audio/video compression formats (601, DV, MPEG2, DVB-ASI, HD, AES/EBU Embedded audio) and familiarity with a wide range of equipment within the broadcast and multimedia industry
  • Working knowledge/experience of disc storage, including; NAS, SAN, SCSI, Fiber Channel, RAID
  • Networking knowledge/experience with Ethernet, routers, switches, hubs, TCP/IP, CIFS, and NFS
  • Working knowledge/experience with 3rd party broadcast products, including; Real Time MPEG Encoders, Automation Systems (Sundance, Harris, Omnibus, etc.), Non-linear Edit Suites (Apple Final Cut Pro, Avid, etc.), Video Switchers / Routers (Sony, Grass Valley, Leitch, etc.)
  • This position requires travel within the Americas region on a frequent basis, often at short notice

EDUCATION:

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and or Computer Science

TITLE: QA SUPPORT ENGINEER
SALARY: UP TO $95K
LOCATION: MENLO PARK, CA
RELOCATION: LOCAL CANDIDATES HIGHLY PREFERRED

COMPANY DESCRIPTION:

The Company is a privately held venture backed startup revolutionizing the enterprise storage appliance industry with innovative patent-pending technologies that allow you to massively scale your I/O intensive applications without limitations leading to a vastly superior alternative to today's solutions.

POSITION SUMMARY:

As an early member of the company’s Quality Organization you’ll join a small, dedicated team of engineers focused on developing an innovative new storage appliance. Your primary job will be to provide product technical support to customers during beta and product release. You will work closely with the Company test and engineering teams to insure our products meet customer expectations. You will also support the Quality campaign by building and executing test tools. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Provide company customers hardware and software technical support, including configuration assistance and troubleshooting of server nodes and other peripheral networking equipment
  • Provide customer advocacy for documentation and timely resolution of issues, and for problem reproduction and escalation
  • Document and reproduce customer related application storage and networking problems, and coordinate fixes through QA and Engineering as required
  • Manage critical customer accounts and escalation requests
  • Work with Engineering and Technical Marketing to clearly document and distribute FAQs for knowledge transfer and consistently accurate resolutions
  • Document all actions taken toward resolving customer issues in contact tracking database
  • Develop common question and answer documentation to be included in department knowledge base
  • Be able to work with engineers to create sets of regression and correctness tests (automated)
  • Develop and implement new test cases from product and customer requirements
  • Manage hardware and software resources for testing

 

Essential Functions:

The candidate will deliver high-quality technical assistance for company storage appliance products through phone, web/email communication. Independently debug broad, complex, and unique storage system and network issues. Support the QA test effort by designing new test cases and create automated test scripts in Perl, C, C++, or use internal Test Harnesses. Perform regression test and verify bugs fixes as required. Have knowledge of system performance testing.

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The candidate will have a demonstrated track record of providing outstanding customer service in a networked systems environment including a strong ability to accurately gather information and resolve technical product issues. You must possess excellent knowledge in NFS, CIFS, Linux, Microsoft Windows, file systems and browsers and have proven skills in supporting end-users and resolving product issues for network storage applications. You should also have experience in test planning and documentation. You must have at least 8 years of experience in networking. Knowledge of scripting languages (csh, perl, awk, cgi, etc.) and programming languages (C, C++)

EDUCATION:

BS in related field

 

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