Field Chief Technology Officer (Field CTO)

The role

The Field CTO acts as a technical ambassador bridging engineering innovation and strategic business needs for large enterprise customers. You will advise C-suite executives and lead architectural discussions to support AI and analytics workloads.

What you will do

• Act as a technical advisor to C-level executives at Fortune 500 companies.
• Design and validate complex, large-scale architectures for enterprise customers.
• Guide customers in integrating MinIO into AI/ML pipelines and data lakehouse ecosystems.
• Represent MinIO at industry conferences, webinars, and meetups.
• Write technical whitepapers, reference architectures, and blog posts.
• Partner with enterprise sales and customer success teams on high-stakes deals.
• Unblock technical objections and provide guidance during Proof of Concepts and deployments.
• Serve as the voice of the customer to product and engineering teams.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in technical leadership roles (e.g., Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, VP of Engineering, or previous Field CTO).
• Demonstrated experience in a customer-facing or evangelist capacity.
• Experience presenting to highly technical audiences and C-level business executives.
• Deep architectural understanding of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs), including Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows and vector databases (e.g., Milvus, Qdrant, Pinecone).
• Strong knowledge of AI/ML data pipelines and frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Ray, Hugging Face).
• Understanding of hardware bottlenecks in AI, specifically the challenge of feeding data to GPUs (GPU data starvation) and how high-throughput storage solves this.
• Expertise in Open Table Formats (Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, Delta Lake) and their integration with object storage.
• Proficiency with modern query engines and compute frameworks (Trino, Presto, Apache Spark, Flink, StarRocks).
• Solid grasp of the evolution from traditional data warehouses to modern Data Lakehouse architectures.
• Strong command of Kubernetes, containerization, and cloud-native orchestration.
• Deep understanding of the AWS S3 API, RESTful APIs, and distributed systems design.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• 401K with 3% Contribution
• Pre-IPO Stock Options
• At least 12 Public Holidays
• Flexible Time Off

About the company

MinIO is the data and memory foundation for enterprise AI. It provides AIStor and MemKV to unify the data stack across core, edge, and cloud.