Pure Storage
Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, SLED (California)
$156K–$234K
Remote, California +1 · Remote · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 17, 2026
- Location
- Remote, California
California, 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 leadership for enterprise storage solutions, translating customer needs into architectures and demonstrating product value to secure technical wins.
What you'll do
- Partner with sales teams, account managers, specialists, and channel partners to shape customer strategies and drive revenue and new business.
- Lead customer evaluations, benchmarks, configurations, and technical presentations; translate business needs into solutions.
- Develop customer-facing technical materials and support interoperability, performance testing, and roadmap planning.
What they ask for
- Pre-sales experience.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience across technology, design, and communications.
- Deep understanding of multi-tier client/server and web-based computing architectures.
- Knowledge of storage architectures, Linux and NFS, cloud-native and on-premises systems, containers, VMware, and networking.
Nice to have
- Experience supporting sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, k8s, microservices, or storage-intensive applications such as SQL and Oracle.
Pay
$156,100 — $234,500 USD annual base salary
Tools
LAMP stack, AWS, Linux, NFS, VMware, Ethernet, TCP/IP, k8s
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