Full-Time
Field Chief Technology Officer
Field CTO
Posted on 9/9/2026
MinIO
201-500 employees
S3-compatible object storage for AI workloads
No salary listed
Remote in UK
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- At least 10 years of experience in technical leadership roles such as Enterprise Architect, Chief Architect, Vice President of Engineering, or Field Chief Technology Officer.
- Experience in a customer-facing or evangelist capacity, presenting to highly technical audiences and C-level business executives.
- Deep architectural understanding of Generative AI and Large Language Models, including Retrieval-Augmented Generation workflows and vector databases such as Milvus, Qdrant, and Pinecone.
- Strong knowledge of AI/ML data pipelines and frameworks including PyTorch, TensorFlow, Ray, and Hugging Face.
- Understanding of hardware bottlenecks in AI, including GPU data starvation and the role of high-throughput storage in addressing it.
- Expertise with open table formats including Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake, and their integration with object storage.
- Proficiency with modern query engines and compute frameworks including Trino, Presto, Apache Spark, Flink, and StarRocks.
- A 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.
- Act as a trusted technical advisor to C-level executives at Fortune 500 companies and articulate the strategic value of high-performance object storage for AI readiness and data democratization.
- Design and validate complex, large-scale architectures for enterprise customers and guide integration of MinIO into AI/ML pipelines and modern data lakehouse ecosystems.
- Represent MinIO at industry conferences, webinars, and meetups.
- Write technical whitepapers, reference architectures, and blog posts about object storage, generative AI, and modern analytics.
- Partner with enterprise sales and customer success teams on high-stakes deals.
- Resolve technical objections and provide strategic guidance during Proofs of Concept and large-scale deployments.
- Serve as the voice of the customer to MinIO product and engineering teams.
- Translate market trends, customer pain points, and emerging AI and analytics patterns into actionable product requirements.
MinIO provides high-performance, S3-compatible object storage designed for large-scale workloads in AI, machine learning, data lakes, and databases. It delivers a software-defined storage solution that can run on any cloud or on-premises infrastructure, offering encryption, data protection, governance, and immutable storage with active-active, multi-site replication for mission-critical environments. It differentiates itself through a dual-licensing model (open-source GNU AGPL v3 plus a commercial enterprise license), enabling both free use and paid enterprise features and support. Its goal is to give organizations a secure, scalable, and flexible object storage platform that works across heterogeneous infrastructure and meets regulated workloads.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$146.3M
Headquarters
Palo Alto, California
Founded
2014
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- March 3, 2026 Table Sharing won Databricks integration and general availability.
- July 2026 AIStor Memory and MemKV target persistent agent workflows and GPU efficiency.
- MinIO reported positive cash flow on March 3, 2026 and preserved 2022 capital.
What critics are saying
- February 12, 2026 archived MinIO's open-source repository, alienating developers and buyers.
- AWS S3 Tables and Databricks OpenSharing squeeze MinIO's differentiated storage-layer sharing.
- Enterprise forks replacing AGPL MinIO destroy the commercial license funnel.
What makes MinIO unique
- MinIO AIStor unifies objects, tables, and agent memory across sovereign deployments.
- MinIO embeds Delta Sharing and Iceberg V3 directly inside the storage layer.
- MinIO runs on-prem, hybrid, and cloud infrastructure without customer data movement.
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↑ 0%HUMAIN, a PIF company, has announced a strategic partnership with MinIO to build an AI-native platform. The collaboration, unveiled at LEAP 2026, aims to accelerate AI adoption in Saudi Arabia and globally. Under the agreement, MinIO becomes HUMAIN's data and memory foundation partner, beginning with HUMAIN Fabric, HUMAIN Brain, and HUMAIN One. The partnership combines strategic engineering collaboration and joint R&D to develop next-generation AI-native platform capabilities. MinIO will lead the architecture, design, and development of HUMAIN Fabric, an AI-native data platform for enterprise and sovereign AI initiatives. The platform serves as the foundation for the HUMAIN AI Stack. Deployments will begin in Saudi Arabia before expanding internationally. HUMAIN aims to deliver full-stack AI capabilities, whilst MinIO provides data infrastructure trusted by 77% of the Fortune 500.
MinIO has launched AIStor Memory, object storage software designed to give AI agents persistent memory across sessions. The product allows agents to retain context, resume interrupted work, and operate on enterprise data under existing governance controls. MinIO argues that as AI agents increasingly handle multi-step jobs spanning sessions, controlling the resulting organisational knowledge becomes essential. Co-founder AB Periasamy said knowledge generated by AI agents "becomes organisational memory, and organisational memory belongs on enterprise-controlled infrastructure." AIStor Memory integrates object storage, vector stores, metadata databases, and secrets management into a single platform. It mounts directly into existing sandboxes and works with current tools without modification. The software supports long-running workflows including software engineering, deep research, human-in-the-loop processes, and enterprise AI systems handling regulated data. MinIO emphasises that memory remains on customer-owned infrastructure, protected by customer-held keys.
TuxCare has launched Endless Lifecycle Support for MinIO following the archival of MinIO's community repository in February 2026. The service provides ongoing security patches, SBOM visibility and SLA-backed support for organisations running existing MinIO deployments. MinIO, a widely used S3-compatible object storage server, was archived by MinIO Inc on 13 February 2026, leaving the repository read-only with no further community updates or security patches. Several vulnerabilities have since been disclosed affecting the final community release, including CVE-2026-39414 and CVE-2026-34204. TuxCare's ELS for MinIO delivers security patches through RPM, DEB and Go binary packages whilst maintaining compatibility with existing infrastructure. The service supports virtual machines, bare-metal environments and on-premises deployments, helping organisations maintain operational continuity without forced migrations.
MinIO has announced MemKV, a context memory store designed for AI inference workloads that delivers microsecond context retrieval at petabyte scale. Built for NVIDIA STX architecture, MemKV addresses the "recompute tax" caused when AI systems lose context and must repeat completed work. The company claims MemKV substantially reduces time-to-first-token at production concurrency. In a typical enterprise deployment with 128 GPUs and 128K-token context length, the technology increased GPU utilisation from approximately 50% to over 90%, resulting in $2 million in annual compute savings. MemKV is the second product in MinIO's portfolio alongside AIStor, extending the company's data foundation into the memory tier where inference runs. The system provides persistent, shared context across GPU clusters, breaking the traditional tradeoff between high-speed memory and scalable storage.
Four Inc. has been named the public sector technology provider for MinIO, the data foundation for enterprise analytics and AI. The partnership will make MinIO's AIStor cloud-native object storage platform available to government agencies through Four Inc.'s NASA SEWP V and ITES-SW2 contract vehicles. MinIO's software-defined platform unifies structured and unstructured data into a single namespace, designed to handle AI training pipelines and data-intensive workloads whilst meeting federal security standards. The system is built for exascale performance and can operate across edge, core and cloud environments. The collaboration combines Four Inc.'s public sector expertise with MinIO's data infrastructure capabilities. MinIO is backed by investors including AME Cloud Ventures, Dell Technologies, General Catalyst and Softbank Vision Fund 2.