Senior Specialist Sales Engineer (Kubernetes)

Location: Remote (United States)

Compensation: $250,000–$300,000 OTE annually

Company

hirify.global provides a high-performance data platform for AI, GPU clusters, and HPC by unifying unstructured data across sites, clouds, and existing storage into a global namespace.

What you will do

• Own the technical motion for Kubernetes-focused opportunities, including operators, CSI, storage classes, and the hirify.global data path inside clusters.
• Design and run proofs of concept covering attachment, performance, failover, and application access to the namespace.
• Enable account SEs to conduct first-pass Kubernetes discovery and routine container-platform POCs without relying on a Field CTO.
• Collaborate with platform engineering, SRE, and cloud-native architects in addition to storage teams.
• Surface CSI, operator, upgrade, multi-cluster, and performance gaps to Product, and escalate blocked POCs and critical issues to the Director.
• Deliver reusable technical presentations, workshops, and hands-on enablement for field SEs.

Requirements

• Experience owning Kubernetes-focused storage or data-platform deals.
• Ability to explain CSI, operators, storage classes, and Kubernetes data paths, and to run POCs that validate them.
• Experience working with platform teams as well as storage teams.
• At least five years of experience 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 data platforms attach to Kubernetes.
• Clear written and verbal communication with platform engineers, customer architects, and field teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with OpenShift, EKS, GKE, AKS, or enterprise-scale on-premises Kubernetes.
• Experience teaching Kubernetes sales motions to other SEs.
• Experience with GPU operators, device-plugin environments, and AI pipelines on Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CSI sidecars, snapshot and clone workflows, RWX file workloads, object access, and multi-cluster or hybrid-cloud operations.

Culture & Benefits

• Health, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance plans.
• 401(k) plans.
• Flexible time off.
• Employment is focused on a specialist Kubernetes seat rather than a named geographic sales territory or new-logo hunting.