Customer Support Engineer- Singapore

VAST Data; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

VAST Data in Singapore is seeking a Customer Support Engineer to join a fast-growing team. You will be the technical expert handling post-sales support, working closely with customers, engineering, and services to resolve issues and deploy solutions.

The role requires strong Linux skills, scripting, NAS experience, and excellent communication in a dynamic startup environment. You will engage with field teams and contribute to lab and on-site activities.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in customer-facing roles with storage solutions.
• Strong Linux administration skills.
• Proficient in Bash scripting; familiar with other languages.
• Experience with networking on Linux and troubleshooting.
• Experience with file systems and scale-out NAS.
• Ability to manage time and priorities in a fast-growing startup.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted customer relationships with a customer-first mindset and product knowledge.
• Respond to technical support issues quickly, with hands-on problem solving.
• Perform daily technical operations and drive issues to resolution.
• Support field services: installations, upgrades, break-fix, expansions.
• Log and escalate feature requests and bugs with adequate detail.
• Coordinate with pre-sales, Professional Services, and Engineering teams.
• Identify opportunities to improve customer adoption and usage of VAST products.
• Guide account teams on technical status and activities.
• Balance workload to meet KPIs and SLAs while ensuring customer happiness.

Skills

Customer-facing

Time management

Networking & storage

Linux administration

Bash scripting

Other programming languages

File systems / NAS

Communication skills

Lab & hardware experience

Education

MS or B.Sc. in CS/CE/EE

Tools

Linux OS

S3 exposure

High‑Performance Computing

Job description

VAST Data is looking for a Customer Support Engineer to join our growing team in Singapore!

This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is at the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.

"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market." - Forbes

VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real‑time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer‑first mentality, and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills and experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.

Summary

As a member of the Customer Support Engineering team you will be regarded as a VAST Data technical expert and, as such, you will be involved in daily technical operations and escalations. You will be part of VAST “Flight Crew” for our customers, working with a small team of other Support Engineers and Success Managers to handle all post‑sales activity for the customer. The main responsibilities include responding to customer issues (reactive and proactive), evaluating the problem, using hands‑on keyboard skills to solve for the issue, and escalating to engineering with as much detail as possible when you can’t. You will also be involved in developing, testing, and solutions in strategically and tactically significant applications and use cases, including file protocols, machine learning, object storage, and high‑performance computing at customer sites and in the lab. You will work directly with customers and various business functions: consulting pre‑sales teams on technical sales activities, supporting Professional Services with onsite field activities, and our engineering teams to solve technical problems.

The Role

• Build trusted customer relationships based on your customer‑first mindset, technical excellence, and command of VAST product
• Respond to technical support issues quickly, working hands‑on keyboard to solve or elevate the issues while being highly communicative
• Complete daily technical operations as needed for the customers, working through technical issues to full resolution and closure
• Perform and support field services for customers: installations, upgrades, break‑fix, and expansions as needed
• Submit and manage feature requests and/or bugs into product marketing and development teams
• Advocate for the priorities of your assigned accounts and continuously track and follow up on bugs, feature requests, and escalations
• Identify opportunities to provide continuous improvement for customers to ensure full adoption and usage of VAST products
• Support and guide VAST data account teams on account technical status and activities
• Manage workload to balance meeting KPIs and VAST SLAs with ensuring customer happiness and satisfaction

Requirements

• Singapore citizenship – Must
• Overall 5+ years of experience in customer‑facing, pre‑sale/post‑sale positions working with complex storage solutions
• Ability to manage own time and case load with rapidly changing priorities
• Extensive knowledge and experience in the enterprise IT infrastructure, networking and storage space is required, along with a broad understanding of the enterprise software world
• Knowledge and working experience in common Linux system administration tasks and Linux OS in general
• Good understanding of networking, and working experience with network configurations on Linux and network troubleshooting
• Scripting and programming – Bash scripting is required; must be familiar with one or more other programming languages
• Significant experience required in the areas of file systems and scale‑out NAS implementation
• Advantage to candidates who have in‑depth knowledge and hands‑on experience with S3 and high‑performance computing
• Excellent business written and verbal communication and presentation skills
• Advantage to candidates who have hands‑on lab and hardware management experience
• Advantage to candidates who have experience working in a rapidly growing entrepreneurial, dynamic start‑up
• MS or B.Sc. in CS, CE, EE, or related fields