Pre-Sales Systems Engineer
Description For Pre-Sales Systems Engineer
Pure Storage is revolutionizing the data storage industry with innovative solutions that empower organizations to simplify how they consume and interact with data. As a Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of technical innovation, working with cutting-edge storage technologies and solutions.
The role combines technical expertise with customer-facing responsibilities, where you'll collaborate with sales teams to understand customer challenges and design tailored solutions. You'll be responsible for technical presentations, system configurations, and evaluations, while serving as a technical expert throughout the sales process.
Pure Storage stands out with its impressive track record - named a leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for ten consecutive years and maintaining a Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally. The company serves over 11,000 customers, including 58% of Fortune 500 companies, demonstrating its strong market position and growth potential.
The position offers competitive compensation ($147,000-211,000 base salary) with additional incentive pay and equity opportunities. Pure Storage's culture emphasizes work-life balance with flexible time off and wellness resources. The company strongly values diversity and inclusion through its Pure Equality program and various employee resource groups.
This role is perfect for someone who combines deep technical knowledge of storage architectures with strong communication skills and a customer-first mindset. You'll be part of a company that's not just selling products, but enabling innovation across various sectors from space exploration to gaming and healthcare.
Responsibilities For Pre-Sales Systems Engineer
- Understand customer's business drivers and decision-making motivations
- Partner with account managers and channel partners to drive revenue growth
- Deliver technical product and architecture presentations
- Lead evaluations, benchmarks and system configurations
- Contribute to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs responses
- Liaison with product and technical marketing teams
- Stay current with competition and market trends
- Translate customer business needs into innovative solutions
- Lead technical win strategies with clients and prospective accounts
Requirements For Pre-Sales Systems Engineer
- BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience
- Pre-sales experience is required
- 5+ years of relevant experience in technology, design, and communications
- Deep understanding of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
- Superior knowledge of storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
- Experience with Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
- Strong knowledge of digital transformation to Cloud Native architecture
- Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
Benefits For Pre-Sales Systems Engineer
- Flexible time off
- Wellness resources
- Company-sponsored team events
- Equity opportunities
- Incentive pay
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