Solution Engineering

Overview

At MayaData we believe that the best way to deliver storage and related services to containerized and cloud-native environments is with containerized and cloud-native architectures. Everything we do is focused on providing data agility and simplifying the daily operation of Kubernetes SRE’s and DevOps teams using Kubernetes as a data layer. We enable our users to handle complex data management operations easily, and we have become open source leaders in building Kubernetes into a first-class data platform.

Requirements

  • Share our values, and work in accordance with those values
    • Positive and solution-oriented mindset
    • Effective communication skills: Regularly achieve consensus with peers, and clear status updates
    • An inclination towards communication, inclusion, and visibility
    • Self-motivated and self-managing, with strong organizational skills.
    • Demonstrated ability to work closely with other parts of the organization
    • Demonstrated ability to onboard and integrate with an organization long-term
    • Ability to thrive in a remote-first organization
    • Comfortable working in a highly agile, intensely iterative software development process
  • Computer science education or equivalent experience.
  • Each Solution Engineer will be expected to be an expert with one or more platforms and workloads based on the professional experience and role.
  • Professional experience with any other technologies that may be required by the expertise or specialty.
  • Proficient in the microservices architecture, ability to debug microservices, ability to explain and understand concepts around Kubernetes, DevOps and Data Management.
  • Proficiency in the English language, both written and verbal, sufficient for success in a remote and largely asynchronous work environment
  • Demonstrated capacity to clearly and concisely communicate about complex technical, architectural, and/or organizational problems and propose thorough iterative solutions
  • Experience with usability, performance and optimization problems and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
  • Experience owning a project from concept to production, including proposal, discussion, and execution. Ability to work single-handed as well as in a team.
  • Ability to use MayaData Products - OpenEBS, Litmus and Kubera

Nice-to-haves

  • Experience in a peak performance organization, preferably a tech startup.
  • Experience with the MayaData products - OpenEBS, Litmus, Kubera as a user or contributor
  • Experience working with a global, remote team or otherwise multicultural team
  • Passionate about working for Infrastructure Products focused on Storage and/or Kubernetes SREs
  • Passionate about/experienced with open source and developer tools

Responsibilities

The Solution Engineer (SE) needs to work on challenges faced by customer and bring out cost-efficient and unique solution for the same. They are the interface between customer and the development team so that the issues can be resolved in less time. After the initial boarding, the SE is responsible for:

  • Writing solution guides and best practices for MayaData products in accordance with popular Kubernetes workloads
  • Updation of Helm charts for Kubera, OpenEBS and Litmus on existing as well as new marketplaces
  • Testing and validating Kubera platform with hosted and self managed Kubernetes services and distribution
  • Continuously learn, run Kubernetes workloads and ensure the product management receives application expectations for the top Kubernetes workloads
  • Contribution in MayaData internal and external blogs