Senior Systems Engineer, Emerging, Japan
Pure StorageTokyo, Japan
Full Time
Posted December 12, 2025
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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 by showcasing product value and designing tailored storage architectures.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with sales team and partners to create customer strategies that drive revenue and new business
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Present and demonstrate technical product architectures to customers to secure technical wins
- Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support their growth
- Lead evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations for storage products
- Develop technical proposals, responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs
- Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
- Create technical marketing materials such as whitepapers and web presentations
- Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and emerging storage architectures
- Support pre-sales activities including discovery, sizing, and objection handling
- Maintain technical expertise in storage architectures, networking, and cloud environments
Requirements
- Pre-sales experience is required
- 5 or more years of relevant experience in technology, design, and communications
- Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client-server and web-based computing solutions
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts (preferred)
- 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, Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environment
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP (a plus)
- Installation and configuration experience of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
- Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures (a plus)
- 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
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
- BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical degree, or equivalent experience
- Familiarity with modern web architecture such as LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture (a plus)
- Curiosity and passion for technology and explaining new technology platforms and concepts to customers
- Ability to work primarily in an in-office environment at the OFFICE_LOCATION in compliance with company policies
- Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases SQL, Oracle (highly desirable)
Benefits & Perks
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Fostering growth and development
Inclusive community and Employee Resource Groups
Accommodations for disabilities
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