Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer (Storage)

Location: Remote, but candidates must be located in Minnesota, Wisconsin, or the Chicagoland area. The requirements section also mentions Albany, NY, creating a conflicting location statement.

Annual base salary: $141,400–$212,000 USD, with potential incentive pay and/or equity.

Company

hirify.global, formerly Pure Storage, develops data storage and flash technology solutions.

What you will do

• Understand customer business drivers and connect hirify.global’s portfolio and ecosystem technologies to measurable business outcomes.
• Partner with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to support sales strategy, revenue growth, and new business.
• Provide technical leadership on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and DAS, NAS, and SAN offerings.
• Lead evaluations, benchmarks, system configurations, interoperability testing, and performance validation.
• Develop and deliver technical product and architecture presentations and author RFI, RFP, and RFQ responses.
• Work with product and technical marketing on solution materials, roadmap planning, competitive positioning, and thought leadership.

Requirements

• Pre-sales experience and 8+ years of relevant experience across technology, design, and communications.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, another technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise storage architectures, including FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN.
• Experience with cloud-native and on-premises architectures, public cloud, provisioning automation, containers, Linux, and NFS.
• Knowledge of VMware, LAN, Ethernet, TCP/IP, general networking, and distributed computing architectures.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical platforms and concepts to customers.

Nice to have

• Experience selling enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, microservices, modern web architecture, and storage-intensive SQL or Oracle applications.
• Experience targeting new prospects and converting them into clients.

Culture & Benefits

• Environment focused on innovation, critical thinking, creativity, teamwork, ownership, and customer focus.
• Opportunities and support for professional growth and meaningful contributions.
• Flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.
• Inclusive workplace with employee resource groups and accommodations available throughout the hiring process.