Senior Pre-Sales System Engineer, SLED

Pure Storage

. Understand customer business drivers and decision-making motivations .

Posted 11/5/2026full-timeRemote • California • United StatesSenior💰 $156,100 - $234,500 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in enterprise storage solutions, cloud architectures, and technical leadership, with a strong focus on driving revenue growth through customer engagement and innovative solution development. Proficient in translating complex technical requirements into actionable business outcomes while fostering collaboration across teams.

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Pre-Sales ExperienceEnterprise Storage SolutionsCloud Native ArchitectureTechnical LeadershipInterpersonal Skills

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Hard Skills

Storage ArchitecturesLinux Distributed Network EnvironmentsMulti-Tiered Client/Server SolutionsAWS Well-Architected FrameworkLAMP StackVirtual Memory SubsystemsProvisioning AutomationSQLMicroservices ArchitectureNetworking Protocols

Soft Skills

Excellent Verbal CommunicationExcellent Written CommunicationTeamworkCreativityCustomer-First Focus

Tools & Technologies

VMwareAWSAzureGCPKubernetes

Industry Keywords

RFPRFQRFIFile SystemsDASNASSANCloud ComputingNetworkingCompetitive Landscape

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLAMPLinuxMicroservicesNFSOracleSQLTCP/IPVMware

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Understand customer business drivers and decision-making motivations
Connect Everpure and ecosystem technology solutions to measurable customer business outcomes
Partner with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to drive revenue growth and net-new business
Provide technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and DAS, NAS, and SAN offerings
Lead evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations
Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations
Capture customer requirements and translate business needs into innovative solutions
Identify and drive interoperability, functional, and performance testing and validation opportunities
Promote roadmap and planning exchanges
Collaborate with product and technical marketing on whitepapers and web presentations
Track competitors and maintain differentiated solution positioning
Promote thought leadership around market trends and the competitive landscape
Demonstrate Everpure values of persistence, creativity, teamwork, ownership, and customer-first focus

Requirements

What you’ll need

Pre-sales experience is required
5 or more years of relevant experience mixed among technology, design, and communications
Experience supporting sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts preferred
Deep understanding of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
Familiarity with modern web architecture, including LAMP stack, scale-out vs. scale-up architectures, AWS Well-Architected Framework, and microservices architecture
Prior experience targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
Experience contributing to or leading RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses
Superior knowledge of storage architectures including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN
Experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments
Experience installing/configuring distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystems, storage subsystem architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems
Strong knowledge of Cloud Native architecture, on-premises environments, public cloud, provisioning automation, and containers
Knowledge of VMware, LAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking
Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures is a plus
Familiarity with storage-intensive applications such as structured databases, SQL, and Oracle is highly desirable
Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Growth and development support
Employee Resource Groups
Disability accommodations throughout the hiring process