Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - San Diego
Pure StorageSan Diego, California
Full Time
Posted March 3, 2026
$156k - $235k
Energy Storage
Remote
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Job Description
The role involves acting as a technical expert in pre-sales activities for enterprise storage solutions, understanding customer needs, designing tailored technical solutions, and supporting sales efforts to drive revenue growth in the data storage industry.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales and technical teams to drive revenue and customer success
- Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations for storage products
- Deliver technical presentations and demonstrations to clients to secure technical wins
- Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support growth
- Identify and promote opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
- Create technical marketing materials such as whitepapers and web presentations
- Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and emerging storage architectures
- Support the sales process through RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses with technical expertise
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-Premises, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers.
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as 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: 156,100 - 234,500 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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