Senior Systems Engineer, Emerging, Japan
Pure StorageTokyo, Japan
Full Time
Posted December 12, 2025
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Job Description
The role involves acting as a technical expert in pre-sales activities for data storage solutions, working closely with sales teams to understand customer needs, demonstrate product value, and develop tailored technical proposals to drive revenue and customer success.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with sales teams and partners to create strategies that drive revenue and customer engagement
- 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
- Respond to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs with technical proposals
- Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability and performance testing
- Develop 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, cloud platforms, and related technologies
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
- 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 is 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 is a plus
- 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
- 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
- Curiosity and passion for technology and explaining new technology platforms and concepts to customers
- Ability to work primarily in an in-office environment at 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
Competitive salary and compensation package (salary range not specified)
Work in-office environment
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Support for growth and development
Inclusive and diverse workplace culture
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