Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - San Diego
Pure StorageSan Diego, California
Full Time
Posted April 17, 2026
$156k - $235k
Energy Storage
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 integration, and customer engagement.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales teams and partners to drive revenue and create a seamless customer experience
- Provide technical leadership and expertise on storage products, architectures, and competitive offerings
- Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations for storage solutions
- Deliver technical presentations and demonstrations 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 is required.
- Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client-server and web-based computing solutions is required.
- 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.
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage solutions, including storage architectures such as FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN, is required.
- Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environment is required.
- Experience with installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystems, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems is required.
- Strong knowledge of digital transformation to Cloud Native architecture, On-Premises, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers is required.
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking is required.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures is a plus.
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills are required.
- Ability to contribute significantly to or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs is required.
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts is preferred.
- Experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients is preferred.
- Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements, such as structured databases like SQL and Oracle, is highly desirable.
- Curiosity and passion for technology and explaining/showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers are required.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 156,100 - 234,500 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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