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Manager, Systems Engineering

Pure Storage
Tokyo, Japan
Full Time
Posted December 16, 2025
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Job Description

A Systems Engineering Manager at Pure Storage leads and mentors a team of pre-sales engineers, driving technical strategy, customer engagement, and sales support for innovative data storage solutions, including all-flash storage, cloud, and AI-driven technologies.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and mentor the Systems Engineering team to drive performance and growth.
  • Manage technical partnerships with large System Integrators for joint sales efforts.
  • Develop and execute an annual operating plan to achieve business objectives.
  • Guide account teams on activities to increase deal success and revenue growth.
  • Understand customer business drivers and translate them into technical solutions.
  • Collaborate with sales and technical teams to create a seamless customer experience.
  • Present technical product and architecture solutions to customers to secure technical wins.
  • Capture customer requirements and design innovative storage solutions.
  • Respond to RFI, RFP, and RFQ proposals with technical expertise.
  • Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation.
  • Liaise with marketing to produce technical materials supporting product positioning.
  • Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and emerging storage architectures.
  • Lead by example, embodying company values and fostering a customer-first approach.

Requirements

  • Experience in supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts
  • Experience in both pre-sales and partner enablement
  • At least 5 or more years of relevant people manager experience
  • Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client-server and web-based computing solutions
  • Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
  • Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs
  • Familiarity with modern web architecture such as LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture (plus if applicable)
  • Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN
  • Experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments
  • Strong knowledge of digital transformation to Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers (plus if applicable)
  • Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP (plus if applicable)
  • Client-facing experience in proposing AI/ML solutions (plus if applicable)
  • Experience with installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems (plus if applicable)
  • Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
  • BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree, or equivalent experience
  • Curiosity and passion for technology and explaining/showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers

Benefits & Perks

Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events

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