Senior Systems Engineer, Japan Public Sector
Pure StorageTokyo, Japan
Full Time
Posted January 1, 2026
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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 collaborating with sales teams to drive revenue through technical expertise and tailored solutions in the data storage industry.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales teams and partners to create a seamless customer experience and drive revenue
- Present and demonstrate technical product and architecture solutions to customers
- Capture customer requirements and translate them into innovative technical solutions
- Support and contribute to RFP, RFI, and bid responses
- Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
- Stay current with market trends, competitive landscape, and product positioning
- Liaise with marketing to produce technical materials supporting product positioning
- Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations
- Maintain expertise in storage architectures, networking, cloud platforms, and emerging technologies
Requirements
- Minimum of 5 or more years of relevant pre-sales experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts.
- Strong public sector domain knowledge across central ministries agencies, independent administrative agencies, municipalities, and education healthcare understanding of decision processes and constraints (preferred).
- Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts (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 cloud platforms (preferred).
- 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 (preferred).
- 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.
- Bachelor’s degree 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 (preferred).
- Curiosity and passion for technology, with the ability to explain and demonstrate new technology platforms and concepts to customers.
- Must be able to work from the Tokyo office in compliance with company policies (in-office environment).
Benefits & Perks
Competitive salary and compensation package (implied by industry standards and role level)
Work from the Tokyo office in compliance with company policies
Flexible time off and wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Support for growth and development within the company
Inclusive and diverse work environment with Employee Resource Groups
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