Senior Systems Engineer, SLED-MD VA
Pure StorageWashington D.C., District of Columbia
Full Time
Posted February 24, 2026
$133k - $200k
Not Specified
Remote
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Job Description
A Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer role focused on understanding customer needs, demonstrating technical solutions, and supporting sales in the data storage and flash technology industry to drive revenue growth and customer success.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand customer business needs and tailor storage solutions accordingly
- Collaborate with sales and technical teams to create seamless customer experiences
- Provide technical leadership and expertise on storage products and architectures
- Conduct evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations to demonstrate product capabilities
- Deliver technical presentations and demonstrations to clients
- Translate customer requirements into innovative storage solutions to support growth
- Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability and performance testing
- Develop technical marketing materials and stay current with industry trends and competitors
Requirements
- Pre-sales experience is required with 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.
- Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture such as the LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, and microservices architecture.
- Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
- Ability to contribute significant portions of or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
- Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN.
- Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environment.
- Experience with installation and configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
- Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, including On-Premises, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers.
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures is a plus.
- Curiosity and passion for technology and explaining/showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers.
- Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable.
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills.
Benefits & Perks
Annual base salary range of 133,000-200,000 USD, determined by role, level, and location
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and/or equity
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Ongoing application process with no deadline
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