Senior Sales Engineer - Japan

Role overview As a Senior Sales Engineer supporting customers and partners in Japan, you will explain how a high-performance data platform can support demanding AI, machine learning, and other compute-intensive workloads. The role combines hands-on technical evaluations and demonstrations with customer advice, solution design, and feedback to product and engineering teams.

Responsibilities - Meet with customers and partners to explain product capabilities and help assess their technical needs. - Configure systems and support customer evaluations, including performance demonstrations and analysis. - Create and deliver technical presentations, architecture overviews, and product demonstrations. - Advise customers on their deployments, review their progress, and recommend potential improvements. - Bring customer feedback to product and engineering teams, and contribute to responses for RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs. - Maintain technical guidance, Q&A materials, and best practices for the product and its ecosystem.

Requirements - Experience with high-performance I/O workloads and file systems, including NFS, SMB, or distributed parallel file systems. - Strong Linux knowledge and an understanding of data center networking. - Experience demonstrating and analyzing system performance. - Experience running workloads on cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP, and configuring Kubernetes. - Strong written and verbal communication skills for working with customers and partners. - Scripting skills are advantageous; startup experience is also considered a plus.

Nice to have The role is hands-on and calls for technical depth across storage, compute, cloud, and container environments.