Senior Systems Engineer (Media & Entertainment) - NY

Qumulo; United States; Remote; USD 260,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pre-IPO stock options

Flexible time-off policy

HSA and PPO health insurance options

Dental and Vision insurance

401(k) plan

ORCA card or parking subsidy

Job summary

Qumulo is seeking a Technical Lead focused on MEGS opportunities for media, entertainment, gaming, and sports accounts. You will partner with Sales and customers from discovery through proof-of-concept, designing storage and workflow architectures for demanding 4K/8K content production environments across multi-site workflows.

This hands-on role works with technical directors, post supervisors, pipeline engineers, and IT teams to translate requirements into scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a customer-facing technical role (Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Media Solutions Engineer) at a software, storage, or tech company with 4+ years in media & entertainment.
• Track record leading complex pre-sales engagements end to end with measurable results.
• Hands-on understanding of common media tools used in production environments (editorial, VFX, 3D, color).

Responsibilities

• Own the technical relationship on MEGS opportunities from discovery to architecture sign-off.
• Qualify deals and shape technical strategies for performance-intensive workloads like VFX rendering and live broadcast.
• Design architectures for throughput, low-latency access, scale, and multi-site collaboration across post and distribution.
• Build credibility with technical directors, post supervisors, pipeline engineers, and IT operations.
• Develop and maintain reference architectures, workflow demos, solution briefs, and competitive positioning.

Skills

Customer-facing technical role

Media & entertainment

Pre-sales leadership

Editorial/VFX tools knowledge

Unstructured storage for media

Executive audience communication

Tools

Avid

Premiere

Nuke

After Effects

Flame

Maya

Cinema 4D

DaVinci Resolve

Sports broadcast platforms

Job description

Qumulo’s cloud data platform manages exabytes of the world’s most demanding data, unifying files, objects, and every workload across edge, core, and cloud.

About the Position

This is the technical lead focusing on Qumulo’s media, entertainment, gaming, and sports accounts. You’ll partner with Sales and customers across the full cycle, from discovery through proof-of-concept, designing storage and workflow architectures for some of the most demanding content production environments in the industry.

The work is hands‑on with the people doing the work: technical directors, post supervisors, pipeline engineers, and IT teams running editorial, VFX, rendering, and live broadcast pipelines. You’ll translate their workflow requirements into solutions that hold up at 4K/8K, high frame rates, and multi-site collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical relationship on MEGS opportunities, from discovery and demos through POCs and architecture sign-off

• Partner with account teams to qualify deals and shape technical strategies for performance‑intensive workloads like VFX rendering, editorial finishing, and live broadcast

• Design architectures for the demands of modern production: throughput, low‑latency access, scale, and multi‑site collaboration across post and distribution

• Build credibility with technical directors, post supervisors, pipeline engineers, and IT operations

• Build and maintain the MEGS technical toolkit: reference architectures, workflow demos, solution briefs, and competitive positioning

Qualifications

• 8+ years in a customer‑facing technical role (Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, or Media Solutions Engineer) at a software, storage, or tech company, including 4+ years focused on media and entertainment

• Track record leading complex pre‑sales engagements end to end, with results you can point to

• Working knowledge of the tools customers use day to day: editorial (Avid, Premiere), VFX (Nuke, After Effects, Flame), 3D and rendering (Maya, Cinema 4D), color (DaVinci Resolve), or sports broadcast platforms

• Strong grounding in unstructured data storage for media: file system performance, metadata, collaborative access, and high‑throughput I/O, including NFS, SMB, and object

• Comfort engaging creative, technical, and executive audiences in the same room

Candidates with the following additional experience will be highly regarded

• Background in episodic TV, film, advertising, sports broadcast, gaming, or streaming production

• Familiarity with cloud and hybrid media workflows, remote collaboration, and AI‑assisted content creation

• Working knowledge of MAM, PAM, or workflow orchestration platforms

• Benchmarking, capacity planning, or workflow optimization for I/O‑intensive creative applications

The annual pay range for the role is USD $260,000 - $270,000 OTE plus equity. Individual pay depends on various factors, such as role level, relevant experience and skills. Pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the pay range applicable at the time.

Benefits & Perks

• Pre‑IPO stock options

• Flexible time‑off policy

• HSA and PPO health insurance options

• Dental and Vision insurance

• 401(k) plan

• Choice of an ORCA card or parking subsidy

About Qumulo

Built for the most demanding enterprise workloads, from AI and HPC simulations to Splunk Observability, genomics and PACS medical imaging, geospatial datasets, media editing and rendering, and video surveillance, Qumulo unlocks the full power of an organization’s information. Our platform unifies file and object storage across data centers, edge, and public clouds, enabling efficient, accelerated computing and extending the reach of data unbound by protocol or transport limitations.

With more than 1,100 customers and exabytes of data under management, Qumulo powers mission‑critical workloads anywhere real‑time access to massive file datasets is non‑negotiable. Qumulo delivers radical simplicity, hardware freedom, exceptional customer support, and a true hybrid‑cloud architecture.

Our Values

At Qumulo, we are building an open and collaborative culture where people can do their best work with customers as our magnetic field. We act as owners, we share by default, we are data driven and experimental and as an inclusive workplace, we encourage and celebrate multiple points of view. As part of our culture we believe diversity drives innovation.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Qumulo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law. For more information on Qumulo’s Applicant Privacy Policy, please visit: https://qumulo.com/applicant-employee-privacy-notice