Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - Las Vegas

Pure Storage

Las Vegas, Nevada

Full Time

Posted April 10, 2026

$141k - $212k

Not Specified

Remote

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Job Description

A Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer responsible for understanding customer needs, demonstrating technical solutions, and supporting sales efforts in the data storage industry, with a focus on storage architectures, cloud integration, and customer engagement.

Key Responsibilities

Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
Collaborate with sales teams and partners to drive revenue and customer success
Provide technical leadership and expertise on storage products and architectures
Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations for clients
Create and deliver technical presentations to showcase product value
Translate customer requirements into innovative technical solutions
Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability and testing
Develop technical marketing materials and stay current with industry trends
Support the sales process through RFP, RFI, and RFQ responses
Maintain knowledge of storage architectures, networking, and cloud 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.
Contribute significant portions and/or lead 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 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 AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures is a plus.
Curiosity and passion for technology, with the ability to explain and demonstrate 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.