Pure Storage
Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - Massachusetts
$141K–$212K
Boston, Massachusetts +1 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 14, 2026
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts
Massachusetts, United States - Experience
- 5 or more years of relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications; pre-sales experience required.
About the job
Provides technical pre-sales expertise for enterprise storage solutions, translating customer needs into technical architectures and business outcomes while supporting sales opportunities.
What you'll do
- Partner with sales teams, account managers, specialists, and channel partners to shape customer strategies and drive revenue.
- Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, system configurations, presentations, and responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
- Translate customer requirements into solutions and support interoperability, performance testing, and technical positioning.
What they ask for
- Pre-sales experience.
- Deep understanding of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing architectures.
- Superior knowledge of storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN).
- Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting enterprise sales of storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, k8s, and microservices architectures.
Pay
$141,400 — $212,100 USD annual base salary
Tools
LAMP stack, AWS, Linux, NFS, VMware, Ethernet, TCP/IP, k8s
AI focus
Supports customers and opportunities connected to AI labs, AI hardware supply chains, and the broader AI ecosystem; no specific AI development work is stated.
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