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Are you passionate about driving innovation in the data storage industry? Are you skilled in crafting technical solutions that exceed customer expectations? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you! Everpure (formerly Pure Storage), a leader in the data storage and flash technology space, is seeking a talented and motivated Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer to join our dynamic team. 

As a Senior Pre-Sales Systems Engineer, you will play a crucial role in understanding our customers' unique challenges and tailoring Everpure solutions to meet their specific needs. Collaborating closely with the sales team, you will act as a technical expert during the sales process, helping to showcase the value of our products and services.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Develop an exhaustive understanding of what drives a customer’s business and what motivates their decision making
• Connect the dots from technology solutions, inclusive of the Everpure portfolio and others from the ecosystem, to measurable customer business outcomes
• Partner closely with account managers, specialists and channel partners to create a seamless and holistic customer experience and strategy to drive revenue growth and net new business
• Delight customers and teammates with your technical leadership and domain expertise on storage products, distributed storage architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the DAS, NAS and SAN product spaces
• Take control of evaluations,  benchmarks and system configurations
• Build and deliver technical product and architecture presentations with vigor to customers and lock in the technical win with clients and prospective accounts
• Capture requirements and translate Customer’s business needs into innovative solutions to accelerate their growth and capacity
• Seek out and spur new opportunities for interoperability, functional, and performance testing/validation
• Promote mutual roadmap and planning exchanges
• Liaise with product and technical marketing to produce materials (i.e. whitepaper, web presentations) that support overall alliance plans and objectives
• Stay current with the competition and ensure that materials accurately reflect the latest, differentiated solution positioning
• Move with market trends and competitive landscape to promote thought leadership within our organization
• Lead by example living the Everpure Values:  Persistence, Creativity, Teamwork, Ownership and Customer-first  

WHAT YOU BRING:

• Pre-sales experience is required
• 5 or more years of relevant experience, mixed among technology, design, and communications required. Experience supporting the sales of enterprise storage, networking, systems, cloud, or software to enterprise accounts preferred
• Deep understanding of the architecture, design and implementation of multi-tiered client/server and web-based computing solutions
• Must have a familiarity with modern web architecture a plus (LAMP stack, scale-out vs scale-up architectures, AWS well-architected framework, microservices architecture)
• Prior experience in targeting new prospects and converting them into clients
• 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)
• Previous experience with Linux, NFS file systems and Linux distributed network environment
• Installation/configuration of distributed computing, multiprocessing, virtual memory subsystem, storage subsystems architecture, shared memory architectures, cache architectures, windowing systems
• Strong knowledge of digital transformation to a Cloud Native architecture, On-Prem, Public Cloud, Provisioning Automation, and Containers
• Knowledge of VMware, Local Area Networking, Ethernet, TCP/IP and general networking
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, GCP, containers, k8s and microservices architectures a plus
• Curiosity and passion around technology and explaining and showing new technology platforms and concepts to customers
• Familiarity with storage-intensive applications and their requirements such as structured databases (SQL, Oracle) is highly desirable
• Excellent verbal and written interpersonal skills

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Rubrik’s sales organization is a united group of elite cross-functional sales professionals that help companies & government entities achieve resilience against cyberattacks, malicious insiders, and operational disruptions. We offer continuous professional development through our world class sales enablement program and our One Rubrik selling approach provides all the resources you need to exceed your goals, maximize your earnings potential and take your career to the next level. All this while doing something that truly matters, protecting the world's data.

As a Sr. Sales Engineer, you will provide technical direction and business guidance to the regional sales team. We are seeking a self-starter who will exceed sales quotas by driving innovative technical programs, pipeline generation alongside AEs, customer demonstrations, POCs, and overseeing day-to-day account-level activities. You will be responsible for evangelizing, positioning, and architecting Rubrik’s products to a targeted list of new & existing enterprise customer accounts in KS and MO. 

What You'll Do:

• Provides technical leadership and direction to customers and internal staff in the development of fully integrated technology solutions in support of pre-sales activities in the assigned market.
• Assists in the analysis, design and development of fully integrated technology solutions.
• Demonstrates technical leadership and subject matter expertise on Rubrik’s products, distributed architectures, file systems, and competitive storage offerings in the SAN product space.
• Acts as technical expert and consultant to develop and propose solutions that meet the technology and business requirements of assigned customers.
• Makes technical and sales presentations to customer's technical staff and senior management.
• Serves as a trusted technology advisor to customers and serves as an internal resource on technical issues or specific business applications within an assigned market segment.
• Successfully builds relationships with the account team, partners and customers in support of sales team objectives and engages and leverages corporate resources, abilities, budgets and personnel as appropriate.
• Leads technical sales calls
• Qualifies sales opportunities in the terms of customer technical requirements, competition, decision making process and funding.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 5+ years of sales engineering experience preferably in a software or data center environment.
• Driven – need for success, highly energetic with a strong hands-on, “can do” approach.
• The successful candidate must have a fundamental breadth of technical knowledge in cloud data management, backup and disaster recovery and data analytics.
• Entrepreneurial - willing to go the extra mile, strong work ethic, resourceful, “get it done” attitude
• Strives in moving in a fast-paced environment; including handling multiple calls/demos per day with immediate follow up.
• A high level of business acumen and experience working with Cx0 level personnel, bringing technology solutions to solve business challenges.
• Smart, adaptable and open-minded

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As an Enterprise Sales Engineer, you will provide technical expertise through sales presentations, product demonstrations, and supporting technical evaluations (POVs). Sales Engineers help qualify and close opportunities with customers and partners and have a voice with the product team to help prioritize features based on input from customers, competitors, and partners.

What You’ll Do:

• Partner with the Sales team to articulate the overall Datadog value proposition, vision and strategy to customers
• Own technical engagement with customers during the trial phase. Communicate Datadog’s value based on activities and work with customers on any identified issues or concerns to successful conclusion
• Technically close complex opportunities through advanced competitive knowledge, technical skill, and credibility
• Deliver product and technical briefings / presentations to potential clients
• Maintain accurate notes and feedback in CRM regarding customer input both wins and losses
• Proactively engage and communicate with customers and Datadog business/technical teams regarding product feedback and competitive landscape

Who You Are:

• Passionate about educating customers on observability risks that are meaningful to their business, and able to build and execute an evaluation plan with a customer
• Someone with strong written and oral communication skills. This role requires an ability to understand and articulate both the business benefits (value proposition) and technical advantages of our offering
• Experienced in programming/scripting with any of the following: Java, Python, Ruby, Go, Node.JS, PHP, and .NET etc.
• Someone with a minimum of 3+ years in a Sales Engineering or DevOps Engineering role
• Able to sit up to 4 hours, traveling to and from client sites 
• Able to travel via auto, train or air up to 45% of the time

Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.

Benefits and Growth: 

• Best-in-breed onboarding
• Generous global benefits
• Intra-departmental mentor and buddy program for in-house networking
• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• An inclusive company culture, able to join our Community Guilds and Inclusion Talks

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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Role

We are looking for a Principal Sales Engineer to join our team located in the South. This role will report to the Director of Sales Engineering for the Americas Field Sales team.

You will be responsible for architecting technical solutions that directly address and resolve critical customer pain points.

What you’ll do (Role Expectations)

• Overseeing the technical sales process
• Running Proof of Value from start to finish, as the technical and industry expert
• Collaborating and supporting internal Zscaler teams

Who You Are (Success Profile)

• You act like an owner. Your passion for the mission fuels your bias for action. You operate with integrity because you genuinely care about the outcome. You adapt to what’s needed, navigating seamlessly between high-level strategy and hands-on execution.
• You are a problem-solver. You seek out challenges because you are energized by finding solutions, knowing that solving the hard problems delivers the biggest impact.
• You are customer-obsessed. You build deep empathy for the customer—both internal and external—and anchor your decisions in solving their real-world problems. You champion their needs from start to finish, knowing their success is our success.
• You champion simplicity. You are skilled at distilling complex problems, user needs, and technical concepts into clear, simple, and actionable plans. You are a precise communicator who brings clarity and focus to every interaction.
• You are resilient and adaptable. You view change as an opportunity and setbacks as temporary. You maintain composure and focus in high-pressure situations, guiding yourself and your team through complexity with a steady, positive hand.

What We’re Looking for (Minimum Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience as a Sales Engineer or Systems integrator
• Knowledge of network security technologies

What Will Make You Stand Out (Preferred Qualifications)

• Industry certifications including CCNP, JNCIP, PCNSA, CISSP, or CCSP
• Experience working with large enterprise and major accounts

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