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Everpure (formerly Pure Storage) is hiring a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to support our Higher Education business, with a focus on R1 research universities.
R1 institutions are not one customer. A single campus can behave like a dozen different organizations at the same time: central IT running enterprise applications, research computing and HPC teams, genomics and imaging cores, AI and machine learning labs competing for GPU time, an academic medical center with its own rules and its own budget, and faculty groups buying infrastructure directly with grant money. Decisions move through CIOs, research computing directors, principal investigators, sponsored programs offices, procurement, and consortium contract vehicles, often in parallel and not always in agreement.
That environment rewards someone who can hold a lot of context at once, translate between very different audiences, and connect technology to the outcomes these institutions actually care about: time to result for researchers, compliance with sponsor and grant requirements, data that stays usable for a decade or more, and budgets that have to stretch further every year.
You will be the technical lead on these accounts, working alongside account managers, specialists, and partners to build solutions customers can defend internally, both technically and financially.
Location: MD / VA
WHAT YOU'LL DO- Develop a real understanding of what drives each institution: research priorities, funding cycles, capital versus operating constraints, and who actually makes the decision
- Connect technology, including the Everpure portfolio and the broader ecosystem, to measurable research and institutional outcomes
- Move fluently between principal investigators, research computing staff, central IT, CIOs, finance, and procurement, adapting the conversation to each audience instead of delivering the same presentation
- Build the business case alongside the technical one: total cost of ownership, power and cooling, data center footprint, staff time, and the real cost of the current environment
- Support research workloads end to end, from instrument and sequencer output through HPC and AI pipelines to long-term retention and archive
- Help customers work through data management questions: lifecycle and retention, reproducibility, sponsor and funding agency data sharing expectations, research data governance, and security requirements such as NIST 800-171 and CMMC where they apply
- Partner closely with account managers, specialists, channel partners, and higher education purchasing consortia and contract vehicles
- Take ownership of evaluations, benchmarks, proofs of concept, and system configurations, and secure the technical win
- Capture requirements and translate them into solutions that help institutions grow their research capability rather than just their capacity
- Author responses to RFIs, RFPs, and RFQs, which in this segment are frequent and detailed
- Stay current on the competitive landscape and make sure our positioning reflects it honestly
- Follow market and research computing trends closely enough to bring that thinking back into our organization
- Lead by example living the Pure Values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first
Required
- 8 or more years of relevant experience across technology, solution design, and customer-facing communication
- Pre-sales or customer-facing technical experience
- Broad technical depth across two or more of: cloud, HPC, AI and machine learning infrastructure, data management, core infrastructure, analytics, or financial and business applications. A career built entirely inside storage is not what we are looking for
- A track record of selling on value: uncovering what the customer is trying to accomplish and connecting technology to business, operational, and financial outcomes
- The ability to hold credible conversations with engineers, architects, executives, finance teams, and procurement, and to adjust the message for each
- Comfort with ambiguity, and the judgment to challenge assumptions and help customers think through complicated decisions
- Curiosity, empathy, an open mind, and a genuine appetite for continuous learning
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- BS in CS, EE, another technical degree, or equivalent experience
Helpful, but not required
- Experience with higher education, research computing, academic medical centers, or the public sector
- Familiarity with HPC and AI environments: parallel and distributed file systems, GPU-attached storage, schedulers such as Slurm, and data pipelines for genomics, imaging, or simulation
- Knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, SAN, object) and file systems
- Linux, NFS, and distributed Linux environments
- VMware, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking
- AWS, Azure, or GCP, and hybrid or cloud-native architectures
- Containers, Kubernetes, and microservices
- Data-intensive applications such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) and analytics platforms
- Experience with grant-funded procurement, consortium purchasing, or public sector contract vehicles
If you meet most of the required list and few of the second list, we would still like to hear from you.
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Salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location. For positions open to candidates in multiple geographical locations, the base salary range is reflective of the labor market across the applicable locations.
This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity.
There is no application deadline and we accept applications on an ongoing basis until the job is filled.
WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US:
- Innovation: We celebrate those who think critically, like a challenge, and aspire to be trailblazers.
- Growth: We give you the space and support to grow along with us and to contribute to something meaningful. We have been named Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology™, Fortune's Best Workplaces in the Bay Area™, and certified as a Great Place to Work®!
- Team: We build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good.
And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events. Check out http://benefits.everpuredata.com/ for more information.
ACCOMMODATIONS AND ACCESSIBILITY:
Candidates with disabilities may request accommodations for all aspects of our hiring process. For more on this, contact us at [email protected] if you’re invited to an interview.
OUR COMMITMENT TO A STRONG AND INCLUSIVE TEAM:
We’re forging a future where everyone finds their rightful place and where every voice matters. Where uniqueness isn’t just accepted but embraced. That’s why we are committed to fostering the growth and development of every person, cultivating a sense of community through our Employee Resource Groups and advocating for inclusive leadership.
Everpure is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other characteristic legally protected by the laws of the jurisdiction in which you are being considered for hire.
Join us and bring your best.
Bring your bold.
Pure and simple.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, another technical discipline, or equivalent experience
- Pre-sales experience
- 8 or more years of relevant experience across technology, design, and communications
- Experience supporting sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts
- Understanding of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
- Experience targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
- Experience leading or contributing significantly to RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses
- Knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures, including Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, and SAN
- Knowledge of cloud-native architecture, on-premises environments, public cloud, provisioning automation, and containers
- Experience with Linux, NFS file systems, and distributed Linux networking environments
- Experience with distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory, storage subsystems, shared memory, cache architectures, and windowing systems
- Knowledge of VMware, local area networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking
- Familiarity with modern web architecture, including LAMP, scale-out versus scale-up architectures, AWS Well-Architected Framework, and microservices
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, and GCP
- Familiarity with containers, Kubernetes, and microservices architectures
- Knowledge of storage-intensive applications and structured databases such as SQL and Oracle
- Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills
- Technical leadership, customer presentation, communication, curiosity, empathy, creativity, and continuous learning
Everpure Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Everpure and has not been reviewed or approved by Everpure.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Equity and stock purchase programs are described as meaningful parts of total compensation, with RSUs and an ESPP highlighted as strengths.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Sales compensation is structured to support long sales cycles, including policies that pay full commission until the first sale for new or white‑space accounts.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, with multiple medical options, fully covered vision, dental PPO choices, mental‑health resources, and company HSA contributions.
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Pure Storage (NYSE:PSTG) helps innovators build a better world with data. Pure's data solutions enable SaaS companies, cloud service providers, and enterprise and public sector customers to deliver real-time, secure data to power their mission-critical production, DevOps, and modern analytics environments in a multi-cloud environment. One of the fastest growing enterprise IT companies in history, Pure Storage enables customers to quickly adopt next-generation technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, to help maximize the value of their data for competitive advantage. And with a Satmetrix-certified NPS customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world.
