LanceDB

LanceDB

Senior Customer Success Engineer

Americas timezones · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 11 days ago
PythonRustDistributed SystemsAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesPrometheusGrafanaMachine LearningAI OrchestrationSalesCustomer SuccessCustomer SupportCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

  • As the Senior Customer Success Engineer, you will be a trusted advisor to our most strategic customers.
  • You'll serve as the connective tissue between our customers, product, and engineering teams, driving continuous improvement in both the customer experience and the product itself.
  • Serve as the customer's technical advocate internally - communicating feature requests, influencing roadmap priorities, and improving developer experience.

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical onboarding and architecture reviews; provide best-practice guidance on system configuration, query optimization, and integration patterns.
  • Proactively identify adoption barriers, troubleshoot complex distributed-system issues, and coordinate with product and engineering teams to drive timely resolutions.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with sales engineering (for technical evaluations, proofs-of-concept, and demos) and support engineering (for escalations and issue triage).
  • You'll collaborate on systems that power next-generation AI workloads while shaping how LanceDB operates and scales production environments.
  • Own customer success metrics: deployment time, usage growth, retention, and satisfaction.

Requirements

  • Proven track record supporting or deploying distributed database systems or large-scale cloud-native data platforms (e.g., high-availability, multi-region, and horizontally scalable environments).
  • Strong proficiency in Rust and Python - able to read, debug, and write production-grade code in both languages.
  • Experience deploying and managing workloads on Kubernetes or other container orchestration frameworks, and familiarity with cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure).
  • Strong problem-solving ability, coupled with a customer-first mindset and the ability to operate autonomously in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Skills

  • Previous experience as a founding or early member of a customer success or solutions engineering function at a high-growth startup.
  • Hands-on experience with vector search, feature stores, or AI-native data systems.
  • Contributions to open-source projects (especially in Rust or Python) or experience authoring developer-facing technical content.
  • Familiarity with modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry) and incident management best practices.
  • Experience designing or leading enterprise architecture workshops or technical proof-of-concepts.
  • LanceDB is a high-performance, open-source, cloud-native data platform built for AI-native and multimodal workflows.

Benefits

  • Build dashboards and track health across accounts.

Company info

  • Partner closely with customers to design, deploy, and optimize LanceDB in production environments, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance for distributed, cloud-native workloads.
  • You'll guide customers from onboarding through adoption and expansion - while flexing seamlessly into pre-sales or technical support capacities as business needs require.

This listing is sourced directly from LanceDB's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.