Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Houston
Pure StorageHouston, Texas
Full Time
Posted December 12, 2025
$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 and product demonstrations in the data storage industry.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales, 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 to demonstrate product capabilities
- Create and deliver technical presentations to customers to secure technical wins
- Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support their 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, competition, and emerging storage 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, including knowledge of FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN storage architectures.
- 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, and microservices architectures like k8s is a plus.
- Experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
- Ability to contribute significantly to or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
- Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements, such as structured databases like SQL and Oracle, is highly desirable.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 137,200 - 206,500 USD annually
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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