Senior Specialist Sales Engineer, Kubernetes

Role Summary

Hammerspace is the high-performance data platform for AI anywhere. We unify unstructured data into

a single global namespace across sites, clouds, and existing storage, then orchestrate that data so it is

available where compute needs it — without a rip-and-replace migration.

The platform delivers parallel, standards-based access for AI, GPU clusters, and HPC. Data can stay

where it already lives and still show up, at speed, where training, inference, and simulation run.

• This seat is the named technical specialist for Kubernetes-shaped deals. Field CTOs should not be the
• default resource on operators, CSI, and “does this run on our cluster.”
• You own the technical motion when the opportunity is orchestration, container platforms, and running
• Hammerspace in a Kubernetes environment. You prove the data path in the cluster — not a slide about
• cloud-native. You make account SEs good enough on those questions that a Field CTO is not required

on the call.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical work when the deal is Kubernetes: operators, CSI, storage classes, and the

Hammerspace data path inside the cluster.

• Enable account SEs to run first-pass Kubernetes discovery and a routine container-platform

POC without a Field CTO.

• Design and run POCs that prove the data path in Kubernetes — attach, performance, failover,

and how applications actually consume the namespace.

• Work with platform teams, not only storage teams. Sit with platform engineering, SRE, and

cloud-native architects.

• Surface real Kubernetes-boundary gaps to Product the same week they show up in the field:

CSI, operator, upgrade, multi-cluster, and performance issues that block a deal.

• Flag stuck POCs, severity-level problems, and coverage holes to the Director the same day.
• Deliver technical presentations, workshops, and hands-on enablement that field SEs can reuse.
• Know when to finish the work yourself and when to pull a Field CTO, cloud, or the Director.

What good looks like in six months

• Kubernetes motions have a named specialist and a repeatable POC path.
• Field CTOs are not the default on routine container-platform technical work.
• Account SEs can do first-pass Kubernetes discovery without you.

Stuck POCs, severity-level issues, and coverage holes reach the Director the same day.

Requirements

• You have been the technical owner on Kubernetes-shaped storage or data-platform deals.
• You can talk CSI, operators, storage classes, and the actual data path — and you can run a

POC that proves it.

• You have worked with platform teams, not only storage teams.
• Five or more years in pre-sales, solutions engineering, or a comparable technical sales role in

storage, data management, or cloud-native infrastructure.

• Working knowledge of Linux, containers, and how a data platform attaches to Kubernetes.
• Clear written and verbal communication with platform engineers, customer architects, and

Hammerspace field teams.

Nice to have

• OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, or on-prem Kubernetes at enterprise scale.
• You have taught other SEs this motion.
• Experience with GPU operator / device-plugin environments and AI pipelines running on

Kubernetes.

• Familiarity with CSI sidecars, snapshot / clone workflows, RWX file workloads, and object

access from the cluster.

• Knowledge of current storage architectures (NAS, SAN, object, parallel file) and of multi-cluster
• or hybrid-cloud operations.
• You do not need to match every bullet. If you have done this work under another title, apply. We hire for
• the work, not a pedigree.

What this role does not own

• Field CTO architecture.
• The cloud-native product story — that sits with Presales.
• Partner Kubernetes programs — that sits with Partner Enablement.
• New-logo hunting as a primary motion.
• A named geographic book. This is a specialty seat.
• The anticipated compensation range for this role is $250,000–$300,000 (OTE). Actual compensation
• will be determined by several factors including, but not limited to, level of professional/education
• experience, skills/abilities, internal equity, and budgetary considerations.
• In addition, Hammerspace offers a broad range of health plans for medical, dental, vision, life and
• disability. We also offer 401k plans and flexible time off.
• Hammerspace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for
• employment without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability,
• military status, or national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable
• local law.
• To the extent required by state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified
• applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable
• regulation.
• Agencies
• Agencies are hereby specifically directed not to contact Hammerspace employees directly in an attempt
• to present candidates. To protect the interests of all parties, Hammerspace will not accept unsolicited
• resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to
• Hammerspace will be considered Hammerspace property. Hammerspace will not pay a fee for any
• placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Hammerspace will consider any
• candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the

Agency free of any charges or fees.

• Agency must obtain advance written approval from Hammerspace’s recruiting function to submit
• resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully-executed contract for service and in response to
• a specific job opening. Hammerspace will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such
• agreement in plac