Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Wisconsin
Pure StorageMadison, Wisconsin
Full Time
Posted July 30, 2025
$137k - $207k
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Job Description
A Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer at Pure Storage is responsible for understanding customer needs, demonstrating the value of storage solutions, and supporting sales efforts through technical expertise, architecture presentations, and tailored solutions in the data storage and cloud infrastructure space.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business challenges and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales teams, account managers, and partners to drive revenue and customer success
- Demonstrate the value of Pure Storage products through technical presentations and evaluations
- Translate customer requirements into innovative technical solutions
- Lead or contribute to responses for RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs
- Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
- Stay current with industry trends, competition, and emerging storage architectures
- Support technical marketing efforts through content creation such as whitepapers and web presentations
Requirements
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience
- Pre-sales experience is required
- 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
- 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 LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, and microservices architecture is a plus
- 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 Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus
- Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures is a plus
- 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) is highly desirable
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
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