Senior Pre-Sales System Engineer, SLED (San Francisco / East Bay)

Everpure•Remote, California, CA

3d•$156,100 - $234,500•Remote

About The Position

Everpure is seeking a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to support customers in San Francisco / East Bay or Sacramento. The role partners closely with sales teams to understand customer challenges, shape tailored technical solutions, and demonstrate the value of Everpure products and services during the sales process. The engineer connects technology solutions to measurable customer business outcomes and works with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to create cohesive customer strategies and drive revenue growth and new business. The position provides technical leadership across storage products and distributed storage architectures, including file systems and competing DAS, NAS, and SAN offerings. It leads customer evaluations, benchmarks, system configurations, presentations, and technical-win efforts; translates business needs into solutions; and helps develop interoperability and performance validation opportunities. The engineer also supports alliance planning and materials, maintains current competitive positioning, and promotes technical thought leadership. The role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity. The annual base salary range is $156,100–$234,500 USD. Everpure describes a culture centered on innovation, growth, teamwork, and inclusion, and offers flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.

Requirements

Pre-sales experience.
At least 5 years of relevant experience across technology, design, and communications.
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.
Ability to contribute significant portions of, or lead responses to, RFPs, RFQs, and RFIs.
Strong 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 with installation and configuration of 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, written, and interpersonal skills.
Curiosity and passion for technology and for explaining and demonstrating new technology platforms and concepts to customers.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts.
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 (k8s), and microservices architectures.
Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements, such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle).

Responsibilities

Develop an exhaustive understanding of customers’ businesses and decision-making motivations.
Connect technology solutions, including Everpure’s portfolio and ecosystem offerings, to measurable customer business outcomes.
Partner with account managers, specialists, and channel partners to create a seamless customer experience and strategies that drive revenue growth and new business.
Provide technical leadership and domain expertise in storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competing DAS, NAS, and SAN offerings.
Lead customer evaluations, benchmarks, and system configurations.
Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations to customers and prospective accounts, securing technical wins.
Capture requirements and translate customers’ business needs into solutions that support their growth and capacity needs.
Identify and promote opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing and validation.
Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges.
Work with product and technical marketing to produce materials, such as white papers and web presentations, supporting alliance plans and objectives.
Keep current with competitors and ensure materials accurately reflect differentiated solution positioning.
Track market trends and the competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within the organization.
Lead by example in demonstrating Everpure’s values: Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership, and Customer-first.