Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Philadelphia
Pure StoragePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania
Full Time
Posted December 15, 2025
$137k - $207k
Energy Storage
Remote
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Job Description
The role involves acting as a technical expert in pre-sales for data storage solutions, understanding customer needs, designing tailored technical architectures, and supporting sales efforts to drive revenue and customer success in the enterprise storage industry.
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, architectures, and competitive offerings
- Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations to demonstrate product capabilities
- Create and deliver technical presentations to clients to secure technical wins
- Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support growth
- Identify and promote opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation of solutions
- Develop technical marketing materials such as whitepapers and web presentations
- Stay current with industry trends, competition, and emerging technologies in storage and cloud architectures
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 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.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures 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
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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