Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - DC MD VA
Pure StorageAlexandria, Virginia
Full Time
Posted December 10, 2025
$115k - $173k
Energy Storage
Remote
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Job Description
A Commercial Pre-Sales Systems Engineer who partners with sales teams to demonstrate and position data storage and infrastructure solutions to customers, translating complex technical concepts into business value and supporting the sales process through technical presentations, evaluations, and strategic customer engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with sales to guide customers through data and infrastructure challenges.
- Develop understanding of customer business drivers and decision-making processes.
- Connect technology solutions to measurable customer business outcomes.
- Collaborate with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to create a seamless customer experience and drive revenue.
- Lead evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations for customer solutions.
- Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations to customers.
- Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation.
- Stay current with market trends, competition, and solution positioning.
- Promote thought leadership and market awareness of company solutions.
- Use a consultative approach to uncover customer requirements and position solutions effectively.
Requirements
- Pre-sales experience is required
- Minimum of 3 years relevant experience in technology, design, and communications
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to commercial accounts is preferred
- Ability to learn rapidly, absorb complex concepts, and adapt to evolving technologies and customer needs
- Understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client-server and web-based computing solutions
- Familiarity with modern web architecture such as LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture is preferred
- Experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
- Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs
- Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environment
- Experience with installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems
- Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking
- Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases SQL, Oracle is highly desirable
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
Benefits & Perks
Annual base salary range of $114,800 to $172,900 USD
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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