Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, Commercial - CT/NY (Storage)

Location: Remote in Connecticut or New York; New Haven, Connecticut

Annual base salary: $141,400–$212,100 USD, with potential incentive pay and/or equity.

Company

hirify.global is a public data platform and storage technology company serving hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem.

What you will do

• Understand customer business drivers and connect hirify.global and ecosystem technology solutions to measurable business outcomes.
• Partner with account managers, specialists, channel partners, and technical marketing to support revenue growth, new business, and alliance plans.
• Provide technical leadership on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and DAS, NAS, and SAN solutions.
• Lead evaluations, benchmarks, system configurations, interoperability testing, functional testing, and performance validation.
• Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations, capture requirements, and translate business needs into innovative solutions.
• Support RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses while tracking competitors, market trends, roadmap exchanges, and solution positioning.

Requirements

• Pre-sales experience is required.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience across technology, design, and communications; enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software sales experience is preferred.
• Deep understanding of the architecture, design, and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions.
• Experience targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.
• Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures, including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN.
• Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and Linux distributed network environments.
• Experience installing and configuring distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystems, storage subsystem architectures, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, and windowing systems.
• Strong knowledge of digital transformation to Cloud Native architecture, on-premises and public cloud environments, provisioning automation, and containers.
• Knowledge of VMware, local area networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills, with curiosity and passion for explaining new technology platforms and concepts to customers.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with modern web architecture, including the LAMP stack, scale-out versus scale-up architectures, the AWS Well-Architected Framework, and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures.
• Experience with storage-intensive applications and requirements, including structured databases such as SQL and Oracle.

Culture & Benefits

• Culture emphasizing innovation, critical thinking, challenge, and trailblazing.
• Growth support and opportunities to contribute to meaningful work.
• Team environment based on mutual support and collective success.
• Flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.
• Inclusive workplace with employee resource groups and inclusive leadership initiatives.

Hiring process

• Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.
• Accessibility accommodations are available for all aspects of the hiring process.