# Pre-Sales System Engineer, Air Force (VA/MD/DC) at Pure Storage

> Remote · United States · Unspecified · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Apurestorage%3A8246329 (read 2026-11-04).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Pure Storage](https://alderhq.app/companies/pure-storage)
- Location text: Remote, Maryland; Remote, Virginia; Remote, Washington D.C.; Remote - Virginia
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Remote · United States (evidence: "Location: Remote, Maryland; Remote, Virginia; Remote, Washington D.C.; Remote - Virginia")
- Posted: 2026-10-01 (34 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-03 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/purestorage/jobs/8246329
- Skills listed (inferred): AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, SQL, Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $141k–$212k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 30, median offered wage $198k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))
- Recognised sponsor (NL): registered as "Pure Storage Netherlands B.V." (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://ind.nl/en/public-register-recognised-sponsors/public-register-regular-labour-and-highly-skilled-migrants))
- Licensed UK sponsor: registered as "Pure Storage UK Limited" (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers))

## Description (the employer's text)

Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem.

This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us.

### THE ROLE

As a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer supporting U.S. Air Force and federal defense customers, you will help translate mission and technology requirements into innovative data-storage solutions. You will serve as a trusted technical advisor throughout the sales process, partnering with account managers, specialists, channel partners, and customers to demonstrate how the Everpure portfolio can deliver secure, scalable, and measurable business outcomes.

### WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Build a deep understanding of U.S. Air Force and federal customers’ missions, priorities, technical environments, and decision criteria.
- Connect Everpure solutions and ecosystem technologies to customer outcomes across enterprise storage, distributed architectures, file systems, cloud, and modernization initiatives.
- Partner with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to shape account strategy, create a seamless customer experience, and drive revenue growth and net-new business.
- Lead technical evaluations, benchmarks, proofs of concept, and system configurations, translating customer requirements into compelling solution designs.
- Develop and deliver clear, persuasive technical presentations and architecture discussions that establish the technical win with customers and prospective accounts.
- Provide technical leadership on storage products and competitive offerings across DAS, NAS, SAN, FC, iSCSI, and software-defined or distributed storage environments.
- Capture customer requirements and identify opportunities for interoperability, functional testing, performance validation, roadmap alignment, and joint planning.
- Contribute to RFP, RFQ, and RFI responses, and collaborate with product and technical marketing on customer-facing materials and differentiated solution positioning.
- Stay current on market trends, competitors, cloud-native architectures, and emerging technologies to promote technical thought leadership.
- Lead by example through Everpure’s values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership, and Customer-first.
### WHAT YOU BRING

- Demonstrated pre-sales experience supporting enterprise technology customers.
- Five or more years of relevant experience across technology, solution design, technical communications, or a related field.
- Experience supporting the sale of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software solutions to enterprise or federal customers.
- Experience supporting U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, or other federal customers preferred.
- Strong understanding of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing architectures, including scale-out and scale-up environments.
- Knowledge of modern cloud-native architectures, on-premises and public-cloud environments, provisioning automation, containers, Kubernetes, and microservices.
- Experience with storage architectures and protocols such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI, NAS, object or software-defined storage, and SAN.
- Working knowledge of Linux, NFS file systems, distributed computing environments, VMware, Ethernet, TCP/IP, and general networking.
- Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP and with storage-intensive applications such as SQL and Oracle databases.
- Ability to lead technical discovery, translate business needs into solution architectures, and communicate complex concepts clearly to technical and executive audiences.
- Experience targeting new prospects, developing relationships, and helping convert opportunities into customers.
- Curiosity, technical passion, and the ability to explain and demonstrate emerging platforms and concepts with confidence.

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