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Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Philadelphia

Pure Storage

Philadelphia · Pennsylvania · USD 141,400-212,100 / year · Remote · Posted Sep 23, 2026

At a glance

Workplace
Remote
Location
Philadelphia · Pennsylvania
Salary
USD 141,400-212,100 / year · Base salary

About the role

  • Everpure is seeking a talented and motivated Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to join its dynamic team in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • The role involves playing a crucial technical expert position during the sales process, understanding customer challenges, and tailoring data storage solutions to meet specific needs.

Responsibilities

  • Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making
  • Connect the dots from technology solutions, inclusive of the Everpure portfolio and others from the ecosystem, to measurable customer business outcomes
  • Partner closely with account managers, specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new business
  • Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces
  • Take control of evaluations, benchmarks and system configurations
  • Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigor to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts
  • Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
  • Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation
  • Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
  • Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials that support overall alliance plans and objectives

Requirements

  • Pre-sales experience is required
  • 5 or more years of relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications required
  • 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 (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN)
  • Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
  • Installation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
  • Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
  • Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking

Preferred qualifications

  • Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts preferred
  • Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture)
  • Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, k8s and microservices architectures a plus
  • Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable

Benefits

  • Flexible time off
  • Wellness resources
  • Company-sponsored team events
  • Incentive pay
  • Equity

Skills

  • Linux
  • NFS
  • VMware
  • Ethernet
  • TCP/IP
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Containers
  • Microservices
  • SQL
  • Oracle
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  • FC
  • iSCSI

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Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Philadelphia

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