Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Enterprise - NY/NJ

Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is a leader in data storage and flash technology, driving innovation across hyperscalers, AI labs, and the broader AI ecosystem. The company is seeking a Senior Pre‑Sales Systems Engineer to partner with sales, understand customer challenges, and tailor Everpure solutions to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Develop an exhaustive understanding of customers’ business drivers and decision‑making factors.
• Connect technology solutions—including the Everpure portfolio and ecosystem partners—to measurable customer outcomes.
• Partner with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to create seamless, holistic customer experiences that drive revenue growth and net new business.
• Provide technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive offerings in DAS, NAS, and SAN spaces.
• Take ownership of evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations.
• Build and deliver compelling technical product and architecture presentations to customers, securing technical wins.
• Capture requirements and translate business needs into innovative solutions that accelerate growth and capacity.
• Identify and pursue new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation.
• Collaborate with product and technical marketing to produce supporting materials such as whitepapers and web presentations.
• Stay current on competition and ensure solution positioning reflects the latest differentiators.
• Monitor market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within the organization.
• Live the Everpure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership, and Customer‑first.

Requirements

• 5+ years of pre‑sales experience, with a blend of technology, design, and communications expertise.
• Experience supporting sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts (preferred).
• Deep understanding of multi‑tiered client/server and web‑based computing architectures.
• Familiarity with modern web architecture (LAMP stack, scale‑out vs. scale‑up, AWS Well‑Architected Framework, microservices) is a plus.
• Proven track record of targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
• Experience contributing to or leading responses to RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN).
• Hands‑on experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and distributed network environments.
• Experience with installation/configuration of distributed computing, virtualization, storage subsystems, shared memory, cache, and windowing systems.
• Strong knowledge of digital transformation to cloud‑native, on‑prem, public cloud, provisioning automation, and containers.
• Understanding of VMware, LAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures is a plus.
• Curiosity and passion for explaining new technology platforms and concepts to customers.
• Knowledge of storage‑intensive applications (e.g., SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable.
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal communication skills.

Pay

The annual base salary range for this role is $141,400 – $234,500 USD. Compensation may include incentive pay and/or equity, with ranges determined by role, level, and location.

Benefits

• Culture of innovation that celebrates critical thinking and trailblazing.
• Growth opportunities with support to develop alongside the company.
• Recognition as a Fortune Best Workplace in Technology and the Bay Area, and Great Place to Work certification.
• Team‑focused environment that values collaboration over ego.
• Flexible time off, wellness resources, and company‑sponsored team events to support work‑life balance.
• Commitment to inclusion and diversity through Employee Resource Groups and inclusive leadership.
• Accommodations available for candidates with disabilities throughout the hiring process.