Senior Systems Engineer, Japan Public Sector

Pure Storage

Tokyo, Japan

Full Time

Posted April 21, 2026

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Job Description

The role involves providing technical expertise in storage solutions, supporting sales efforts, and developing tailored product demonstrations and proposals to meet customer needs in the data storage industry.

Key Responsibilities

Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
Collaborate with sales teams, partners, and stakeholders to drive revenue and customer success
Present technical product and architecture solutions to customers to secure technical wins
Evaluate, benchmark, and configure storage systems and architectures
Respond to RFI, RFP, and RFQ documents with technical proposals
Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, testing, and validation
Create technical materials such as whitepapers and presentations to support marketing and sales efforts
Stay current with industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging storage technologies
Lead technical discussions and demonstrations to showcase product advantages
Support pre-sales activities including technical assessments, architecture design, and customer engagement

Requirements

Pre-sales experience is required with 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 cloud platforms.
Installation and configuration experience of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystems, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes (k8s), and microservices architectures.
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 degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or other technical field, or equivalent experience.
Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture such as LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture.
Experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
Ability to liaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials such as whitepapers and web presentations.
Experience supporting government procurement processes including RFx, RFI, RFP, specs support, compliance matrices, QA, bid presentations, and evaluation support is a plus.
Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases like SQL and Oracle is highly desirable.
Familiarity with modern web architecture and cloud-native solutions is a plus.
Ability to work primarily in an in-office environment at the Tokyo office in compliance with company policies.
Strong public sector domain knowledge across central ministries, agencies, municipalities, and education/healthcare sectors is a plus.