Commercial Systems Engineer

Pure Storage was founded with the ambitious goal of revolutionizing the computing infrastructure industry. Today we are building the data platform for the cloud era and we’ve accomplished the first step towards that goal by bringing to market the simplest and most reliable all-flash storage array in history.

* Participate in the creation of sales strategy and tactics and takes ownership of technical responsibilities within customer accounts. * Assisting customers with evaluations and benchmarks, system configurations, and system installations. * Work closely with Engineering and Product Management in helping to define product requirements and usability. * Demonstrate technical leadership and subject matter expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces.

* 5-10 years minimum experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking or systems solutions to a combination of large enterprise accounts and data centers. * Thorough understanding of the architecture, design and implementations of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions * Preparation and delivery of technical product and architecture presentation * Contribute significant portions and/or lead responses to RFPs, RFQs and RFIs * Superior knowledge of current and emerging storage architectures (FC, iSCSI, NAS, OSD, SAN) * Familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, NoSQL alternatives) * UNIX OS, NFS file systems and UNIX distributed network environment * Installation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems * Knowledge of VMWare, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking * Excellent verbal and written communication skills * BS in CS, EE or other technical degree and/or equivalent experience.