Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Columbus
Pure StorageColumbus, Ohio
Full Time
Posted February 25, 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, and networking technologies.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor technical solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales teams, account managers, and partners to drive revenue and customer success
- Provide technical leadership and expertise on storage products, architectures, and competitive offerings
- Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations to demonstrate product capabilities
- Create and deliver technical presentations to showcase solutions and 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 such as whitepapers and web presentations
- Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and emerging technologies in storage and cloud architectures
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 solutions and supporting 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 environments.
- 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 Cloud Native architecture, On-Premises, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers.
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking concepts.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures is a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
- Ability to support the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software solutions to enterprise accounts.
- Ability to contribute significantly or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
- 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.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 141,400 - 212,100 USD annually
Role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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