Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Columbus
Pure StorageColumbus, Ohio
Full Time
Posted December 12, 2025
$137k - $207k
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Job Description
The role involves supporting the sales process of enterprise storage solutions by providing technical expertise, developing tailored customer solutions, and demonstrating the value of Pure Storage products to drive revenue growth and customer satisfaction.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales teams, partners, and stakeholders to drive revenue and customer success
- Present technical solutions and architecture to customers to secure technical wins
- Evaluate, benchmark, and configure storage systems for customer environments
- Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support growth
- Identify and develop new opportunities for interoperability and performance testing
- 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 sales process through RFP/RFI responses and technical demonstrations
- Maintain expertise in storage architectures, networking, cloud, and virtualization technologies
Requirements
- Pre-sales experience is required with 5 or more years of relevant experience in technology, design, and communications.
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts is preferred.
- 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, and microservices architecture.
- Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
- Experience 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, and SAN.
- Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environment.
- Experience with installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystems, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
- Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, including 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, and microservices architectures like k8s 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 like SQL and Oracle, is highly desirable.
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
Benefits & Perks
Annual base salary range of $137,200 to $206,500 USD
Potential eligibility 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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