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Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - Boston

Pure Storage
Boston, Massachusetts
Full Time
Posted November 20, 2025
$137k - $207k
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Job Description

The role involves supporting the sales process by providing technical expertise in storage solutions, developing tailored customer proposals, and demonstrating the value of Pure Storage products to drive revenue and customer satisfaction.

Key Responsibilities

  • Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
  • Collaborate with sales team and partners to drive revenue and customer success
  • Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations
  • Create and deliver technical presentations to demonstrate product value
  • Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions
  • Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability and performance testing
  • Support marketing efforts with technical materials and thought leadership
  • Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies

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 the 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 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 and demonstrating 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: 137,200 - 206,500 USD annually
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events

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