Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - Orange County
Pure StorageLos Angeles, California
Full Time
Posted December 15, 2025
$125k - $189k
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Job Description
The role involves partnering with sales to guide customers through data storage and infrastructure solutions by translating complex technical concepts into business value, supporting technical evaluations, and creating tailored presentations to drive revenue and customer success.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with sales to guide customers through data and infrastructure challenges
- Develop understanding of customer business drivers and decision-making factors
- Connect technology solutions to measurable customer business outcomes
- Collaborate with account managers, specialists, and partners to drive revenue and new business
- Lead evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations
- Create and deliver technical product and architecture presentations to customers
- Identify and promote new opportunities for interoperability and testing validation
- Stay current with market trends, competition, and solution positioning
- Support the sales process by responding to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs
- Maintain expertise in storage, networking, cloud, and related technologies
Requirements
- Pre-sales experience is required
- 3 years relevant experience in technology, design, and communications
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to commercial accounts
- 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
- 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 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
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
Benefits & Perks
Annual base salary range of $125,300 - $189,000 USD
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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