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 the value of storage solutions, and supporting the sales process through technical expertise, architecture design, and strategic engagement to drive revenue growth in the data storage industry.
Key Responsibilities
- Collaborate with sales teams and partners to create strategies that drive revenue and customer engagement
- Understand and connect customer business needs with appropriate storage solutions and technologies
- Present technical product and architecture solutions to customers to secure technical wins
- Capture customer requirements and translate them into innovative storage solutions
- 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
- Stay current with industry trends, competitors, and emerging storage architectures
- Create technical marketing materials and support thought leadership initiatives
- Support pre-sales activities including discovery, sizing, and objection handling
Requirements
- Pre-sales experience is required.
- Minimum of 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.
- 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, Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environment.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus.
- Experience with installation and configuration 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 a 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 is a plus.
- Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and demonstrating new technology platforms and concepts to customers.
- Must work from the OFFICE_LOCATION office in compliance with Pure Storage policies unless on PTO, work travel, or other approved leave.
- Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases SQL, Oracle is highly desirable.
Benefits & Perks
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Opportunities for growth and development
Inclusive and diverse work environment
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