Join SolidFire
SolidFire is Boulder's hottest storage startup. Backed by NEA, Valhalla Partners and Novak Biddle Venture Partners, SolidFire is well funded and moving fast.
Do you thrive in ground floor opportunities? Do you want to make a major impact on an industry? If so, SolidFire may be for you.
Senior Account Executive (Boulder, CO)
SolidFire is currently seeking experienced Sales Executives. As one of Boulder's hottest startups backed by top tier venture firms, SolidFire is delivering high-performance and high-efficiency primary storage systems for cloud service providers. Candidates should have a proven track record of success in meeting or exceeding assigned quotas while selling storage subsystems to complex buying coalitions in medium to large enterprises across all industries.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Responsible for the creation, implementation and execution of sales plans
- Manage and further develop relationship between SolidFire and existing customers to increase utilization of our product
- Ongoing communication with existing customers to maintain high customer satisfaction levels
- Proactively identify and address support issues in a timely manner
- Boost customer business by leveraging Solidfire's technical, sales and operational resources
- Lead cross-functions teams to further our cause with both existing customers as well as net new customers
- Grow pipeline by adding new customers
- Regular forecasting and reporting of revenue
- Attend and speak at trade shows and conferences
- Cold calling & prospecting
- Maintain a complete knowledge of the SolidFire products and services
Requirements:
- 10 years selling experience with a proven track record of meeting and exceeding assigned quotas
- MUST have strong storage selling experience
- Proven track record of selling storage subsystems into cloud service providers
- Proven ability to understand how to navigate through complex buying coalitions
- Management experience preferred, but not required
- BS degree required, MBA a plus
- Frequent Travel, 60 - 80%
- Concrete understanding of consultative selling models and strategic selling models
- Extremely strong written communication skills as well as public speaking/presentation skills
Please email us your resume.
Senior VM Integration Engineer (Boulder, CO)
SolidFire is looking for an Integration Engineer that
has a background in Vmware-specific storage systems solutions.
Other background that is integral to this position is a high degree
of vSphere API knowledge, bash experience and a strong Linux
background.
In addition to building a great product with the best management
integration, SolidFire is committed to having a great company
culture and fun work environment. Most engineers say that working
for a startup is the best move they ever made. The current team is
made up of top engineers from academic, cloud computing, and
storage industry backgrounds. Our product utilizes cutting edge SSD
technology in the exploding new frontier of cloud computing.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Developing VMware specific management integration for our low latency, high IOP data storage system
- Designing custom integration solutions with customers and partners
- Participating in VMware partnership events and community activities
Requirements:
- Experience building storage integration with VMware products and vSphere APIs (SRM, VASA, VAMP)
- Expert in Python and C++ software development
- Linux and bash experience
- Strong desire to learn and grow by working on difficult problems
- Ability to think and act independently
- Familiarity with the following a strong plus: distributed systems, networking, enterprise storage
Please email us your resume.
Technical Marketing Engineer (Boulder, CO)
On top of engineering a great product, SolidFire is committed to providing the best product information and guidance to our customers. If you excel at communicating with top notch system administrators and evangelizing complex product concepts you might be great for this opportunity. Technical Marketing at an innovative startup is a great way to grow in your career while having significant influence on a cutting edge product. Our team has a work hard play hard mentality; so your ability to have some fun is a must!
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Contribute to product quality by working with sales, support, marketing, and engineering
- Deliver marketing materials; case studies, performance white papers, sales tools
- Demonstrate products
- Develop and document product best practices
- Respond to customer technical inquiries and RFPs
Requirements:
- Excellent written and oral communication abilities
- Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem solving skills
- Experience with storage performance benchmarking
- Track record of taking ownership and delivering projects on time
- 1-3 years data storage industry experience
- B.S. in information technology or marketing discipline or equivalent experience
- Technical familiarity with the following a strong plus: Hypervisors (ESX, Xenserver, Xen, KVM), iSCSI storage, SPC performance benchmarks, Database applications (SQL, Oracle, SAP)
Please email us your resume.
Senior Software Engineer (Boulder, CO)
SolidFire is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our rapidly growing team. The primary responsibility of the Senior Software Engineer is to enhance and develop new features for our low latency and extremely high performance distributed data storage system. The ideal candidate will have a minimum 5 years experience in C/C++ with a storage background and/or experience in multithreading and distributed systems. In addition to technical skills, we are looking for someone who is interested in working in a collaborative, fast paced, high energy startup environment. This position requires a passion and a willingness to go above and beyond to get the job done. Our team has a work hard play hard mentality; so your ability to have some fun is a must!
Requirements:
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Related Field, or equivalent
- 5+ years experience in C/C++ development on Linux
- Deep understanding and experience in multi-threaded development
- Strong desire to learn and grow by working on difficult problems
- Ability to think and act independently
- Familiarity with the following strongly preferred: distributed systems, networking, Boost, STL, enterprise storage
Please email us your resume.
Software Engineer (Boulder, CO)
The primary responsibility of the Software Engineer is to enhance and develop new features for our low latency and extremely high performance distributed data storage system. In addition to building a great product, SolidFire is committed to having a great company culture, fun work environment, and supports its employees with 100% employer paid benefits. Most engineers say that working for a startup is the best move they ever made. The current team is made up of top engineers with backgrounds from Stanford, Cornell, and Georgia Tech. Why be a code monkey in the cogs of a giant machine when you could work in a highly collaborative environment and be part of a small team of talented engineers bringing an amazing new product to market? Our team has a work hard play hard mentality; so your ability to have some fun is a must!
Requirements:
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Related Field, or equivalent
- 1-3 Years experience in C/C++ development on Linux
- Understanding of multi-threaded development
- Strong desire to learn and grow by working on difficult problems
- Ability to think and act independently
- Familiarity with the following strongly preferred: distributed systems, networking, Boost, STL, enterprise storage
Please email us your resume.
Web UI Engineer, Contract (Boulder, CO)
SolidFire is looking for a rock star Web UI Engineer to assist in making improvements and upgrades to our existing customer facing UI. This is a contract position with a flexible work schedule, including the option to work remotely. This person must be available to report to our office in downtown Boulder, CO on occasion to collaborate with other team members and departments. The primary responsibilities of this position includes requirements gathering, design mapping, creating/presenting mockups, production, and finally production/launch and maintenance. The ideal candidate is excited to be a part of a growing team in a fast paced, challenging, and most importantly fun, work environment.
Other Responsibilities include:
- Enhancing our web UI with slick new features
- Creatively addressing usability design challenges
- Collaborating with other departments including Product Management, Software Engineering, QA and Marketing
- Establishing development timelines
Requirements:
- 2-5 Years' experience developing user interfaces
- Excellent understanding of usability design
- Proven ability to communicate effectively
- Demonstrated experience coordinating cross-departmental projects
- Strong background in: JavaScript, using RESTful APIs, JSON parsing, PHP
- Familiarity with the following a strong plus: Highcharts, Python, rudimentary enterprise storage knowledge
Please email us your resume.
iSCSI Data Path Engineer (Boulder, CO)
In addition to building a great product, SolidFire is committed to having a great company culture and fun work environment. Most engineers say that working for a startup is the best move they ever made. The current team is made up of top engineers with backgrounds from Stanford, Cornell, and Georgia Tech. Why be a code monkey in the cogs of a giant machine when you could be part of a small team of talented engineers bringing an amazing new product to market?
Requirements:
- Expert in iSCSI data path development
- Multipath I/O expertise and development experience
- B.S., M.S., or Ph.D. in Computer Science or equivalent
- Substantial experience in C/C++ development on Linux
- Deep understanding and experience in multi-threaded development
- Strong desire to learn and grow by working on difficult problems
- Ability to think and act independently
- Familiarity with the following a strong plus: distributed systems, networking, Boost, enterprise storage
Please email us your resume.
Software QA Engineer (Boulder, CO)
Our QA group is looking for a Software QA Engineer that can quickly become a key contributor in our software QA environment. This is a high-visibility role that will impact the fundamental performance of our new cloud storage product. In this fast paced start-up environment you have the opportunity to work on advanced software and will be expected to show initiative and passion on a daily basis by helping shape the functions and processes of the QA organization.
As a Software QA engineer,your responsibilities include:
- Create test plans and test strategies
- Test automation development
- Perform highly structured manual and automated tests
- Assist development engineers in fault isolation, root cause analysis of failures and resolution
- Report and track bug cases
- Providing test status and detailed test reports
Requirements:
- Experience working in a QA team environment delivering high quality software
- Experience writing and executing complex system level test plans, test cases and test reports
- Experience with virtualization technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, Xen
- Strong knowledge of storage and networking technologies
- Must have excellent analytical skills and be able to debug complex system problems
- Experience working with Linux or Unix is highly desirable
- Scripting skills in Python and/or Perl is a plus
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal)
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to track multiple test executions simultaneously
- B.S. or M.S. degree in a technical discipline or equivalent experience
Please email us your resume.
QA Automation Engineer (Boulder, CO)
SolidFire is looking for an experienced Automation Engineer who is passionate about developing innovative automated testing solutions for our state-of-the-art cloud storage solution. The candidate should be self-driven, with a strong background in Python programming and test automation frameworks. The primary responsibility of the candidate will be to work closely with both QA and Development teams to design and create a unified test automation framework that will be used across all levels of the R&D organization.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities:
- Design and develop a reliable, scalable and maintainable test automation framework
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with the QA and Development teams to develop automation processes and plans
- Develop detailed automated tests from test plans, test cases and functional specs
- Diagnose, debug and perform root-cause analysis of issues and defects
- Actively participate in test planning discussions to assure automation coverage is continuously improving
Requirements:
- 5+ years experience developing complex test automation and scripts using Python
- 5+ years of software development and/or quality engineering experience
- Solid programming experience in Python is a must
- Experience with Linux is a must, any other OS is a plus
- Storage domain expertise is a plus
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Track record of being a key contributor in successful projects
- B.S. or M.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Please email us your resume.
Others
We are looking for individuals who have a deep understanding of technology and Internet infrastructure for numerous roles within SolidFire.
If you are interested in working for SolidFire, email us your resume and tell us why you want to be part of the team. No recruiters please.
