Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise, NYC
Pure StorageNew York, New York
Full Time
Posted December 4, 2025
$152k - $228k
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Job Description
A Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer at Pure Storage is responsible for understanding customer needs, demonstrating technical solutions, and supporting sales efforts in the data storage industry, with a focus on storage architectures, cloud integration, and innovative technology solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales teams and partners to drive revenue and customer success
- Present technical product and architecture solutions to customers to secure technical wins
- Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions
- Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations for storage products
- 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
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 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 (SQL, Oracle) (highly desirable).
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 151,900 - 228,200 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
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