Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - Bay Area
Pure StorageSan Francisco, California
Full Time
Posted January 26, 2026
$152k - $228k
Energy Storage
Remote
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Job Description
A Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer at Pure Storage is responsible for understanding customer needs, designing tailored storage solutions, and supporting the sales process through technical expertise, presentations, and demonstrations to drive revenue and customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales teams and partners to drive revenue and customer engagement
- Present technical product and architecture solutions to customers to secure technical wins
- Evaluate, benchmark, and configure storage systems for customer demonstrations and testing
- Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support their growth
- Identify and develop new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
- Create technical materials such as whitepapers and presentations to support sales and marketing
- Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and emerging storage architectures
- Support the technical response to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs
Requirements
- Pre-sales experience of 5 or more years supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts.
- Deep 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, and microservices architecture is a plus.
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts is preferred.
- Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
- Experience in contributing significant portions of or leading responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
- Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN.
- 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-Premises, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers.
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures is a plus.
- Curiosity and passion for technology and explaining/showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers.
- 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
Salary range: 151,900 - 228,200 USD annually
Role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Accommodations for candidates with disabilities
Inclusive and diverse work environment
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