Pure Storage
Pre-Sales System Engineer, Air Force (VA/MD/DC)
$141K–$212K
Remote, Maryland +3 · Remote · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- Remote, Maryland
Remote, Virginia
Remote, Washington D.C.
Virginia, United States - Experience
- Five or more years of relevant experience across technology, solution design, technical communications, or a related field.
About the job
Supports U.S. Air Force and federal defense customers by translating mission and technical requirements into storage solutions and serving as a technical advisor throughout the sales process.
What you'll do
- Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, proofs of concept, and solution designs; deliver technical presentations and architecture discussions.
- Partner with sales teams, specialists, channel partners, and customers to shape account strategy and support revenue growth.
- Advise on storage architectures and protocols, capture customer requirements, and contribute to RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated pre-sales experience supporting enterprise technology customers.
- Experience supporting sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software solutions to enterprise or federal customers.
- Strong understanding of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing architectures, including scale-out and scale-up environments.
- Knowledge of cloud-native architectures, storage architectures and protocols, Linux, networking, and related technologies.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, or other federal customers.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP and storage-intensive applications such as SQL and Oracle databases.
Pay
$141,400 — $212,100 USD annual base salary
Tools
Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NAS, SAN, Kubernetes, Linux, VMware, TCP/IP
AI focus
Supports customers and solutions in AI-related technology ecosystems, but no specific AI work is stated for this role.
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