Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Chicago
Pure StorageChicago, Illinois
Full Time
Posted January 7, 2026
$137k - $207k
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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 sales efforts through technical expertise, demonstrations, and strategic engagement to drive revenue and showcase innovative data storage technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales team, account managers, 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 storage solutions
- Create and deliver technical presentations to customers to secure technical wins
- Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support growth
- Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
- Develop technical marketing materials and stay current with industry trends and competitors
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.
- Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture such as the LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture (preferred).
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts (preferred).
- Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
- 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 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 cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures (preferred).
- 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 like SQL and Oracle (highly desirable).
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 137,200 - 206,500 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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