Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO)
MinIO
IndiaremotePosted 14 days ago
Skill Required
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Key highlights
- Required experience: 10+ years in technical leadership roles.
- Must have deep architectural knowledge of Generative AI, LLMs, and RAG workflows.
- Role involves advising C‑level executives at Fortune 500 companies.
- MinIO is trusted by 77% of the Fortune 100.
- Hands‑on expertise required with modern analytics stack (Iceberg, Delta Lake, Trino, Spark).
Role overview
We are seeking a highly technical, visionary, and customer‑centric Field CTO to act as our premier technical ambassador. In this role, you will bridge the gap between MinIO’s engineering innovation and the strategic business needs of our largest, most complex enterprise customers.
Responsibilities
- Executive Advisory & Evangelism: Act as a trusted technical advisor to C‑level executives at Fortune 500 companies. Articulate the strategic value of high‑performance object storage in the context of AI readiness and data democratization.
- Architectural Leadership: Design and validate complex, large‑scale architectures for enterprise customers. Guide them in integrating MinIO seamlessly into their AI/ML pipelines and modern data lakehouse ecosystems.
- Industry Thought Leadership: Represent MinIO at major industry conferences, webinars, and meetups. Write technical whitepapers, reference architectures, and blog posts focusing on the intersection of object storage, generative AI, and modern analytics.
- Pre‑Sales & Post‑Sales Strategic Support: Partner closely with enterprise sales and customer success teams on high‑stakes deals. Unblock technical objections and provide strategic guidance during Proof of Concepts (PoCs) and large‑scale deployments.
- Product Strategy Feedback Loop: Serve as the "voice of the customer" to MinIO’s product and engineering teams. Distill market trends, customer pain points, and emerging AI/Analytics patterns into actionable product requirements.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in technical leadership roles (e.g., Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, VP of Engineering, or previous Field CTO).
- Demonstrated experience in a customer‑facing or evangelist capacity, successfully presenting to both highly technical audiences and C‑level business executives.
- Deep architectural understanding of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), including Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows and vector databases (e.g., Milvus, Qdrant, Pinecone).
- Strong knowledge of AI/ML data pipelines and frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Ray, Hugging Face).
- Understanding of hardware bottlenecks in AI, specifically the challenge of feeding data to GPUs (GPU data starvation) and how high‑throughput storage solves this.
- Expertise in Open Table Formats (Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Delta Lake) and their integration with object storage.
- Proficiency with modern query engines and compute frameworks (Trino, Presto, Apache Spark, Flink, StarRocks).
- Solid grasp of the evolution from traditional data warehouses to modern Data Lakehouse architectures.
- Strong command of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud‑native orchestration.
- Deep understanding of the AWS S3 API, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems design.
Additional details
- MinIO is the data and memory foundation for enterprise AI. Built for the speed, scale, and economics that AI and analytics demand, AIStor and MemKV unify every layer of the data stack, from agentic and inference context memory to tables and objects across core, edge, and cloud.
- Trusted by 77% of the Fortune 100, MinIO is redefining how AI factories, intelligent applications, and autonomous agents secure, persist, and unlock the full value of their data.
- Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO): MinIO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.
- Originally posted on Himalayas.