Pre-Sales Solutions Architect - PNW

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 175,000 - 265,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pre-IPO stock options

Flexible time-off policy

HSA and PPO health insurance options

Dental and Vision insurance

401(k) plan

ORCA card or parking subsidy

Job summary

Qumulo is seeking a Pre-Sales Solutions Architect to join our field sales organization. You will translate customer needs into scalable architectures, deliver demos, and build strong business cases for our cloud data platform.

You will travel up to 20% in the NW United States, engage with C-level buyers, and act as a trusted advisor, guiding deals from discovery to closing while staying current on storage trends.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in pre-sales engineering, including 3–5 years focused on cloud, unstructured data, and file/object storage technologies.
• Strong technical foundation in cloud platforms, end-user compute, and operating systems (Windows, Linux, Unix/BSD), with knowledge of SMB, NFS, and S3 protocols.
• Experience designing solutions across edge, datacenter, and cloud environments, including hybrid storage architectures.
• Proven ability to manage customer relationships, conduct business and technical discovery, and deliver solutions that drive growth across industries.
• Familiarity with competitive storage technologies (e.g., NetApp, Dell Technologies, PowerScale, VAST Data, Pure Storage, Ceph, Lustre, Scality, Weka) and knowledge of Pacific Northwest storage and cloud markets.
• Strong communication, presentation, and consultative/value-selling skills, including whiteboarding, demos, and objection handling for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; relevant certifications (AWS, Azure, storage) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and customer engagement by translating needs into scalable architectures, participating in deep-dive discussions, articulating value propositions, and delivering high- and low-level designs.
• Support the sales cycle through technical proposals, RFP responses, whitespace analysis, business planning, and by guiding deal strategy, qualification, and forecasting.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with customers, using strong communication, storytelling, and objection-handling skills to influence decisions and challenge perspectives when needed.
• Stay current on industry trends and contribute to thought leadership (case studies, white papers, media) to strengthen market positioning.
• Deliver hands-on demonstrations and proof-of-concept deployments to validate solutions and overcome objections.
• Travel up to 20% across the NW United States.

Skills

Pre-sales engineering

Cloud platforms

Storage technologies

Customer relationships

Communication skills

Presentation skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

AWS/Azure certifications preferred

Job description

Qumulo's cloud data platform manages exabytes of the world's most demanding data, unifying files, objects, and every workload across edge, core, and cloud.
About The Team
Qumulo’s Sales team is made up of pioneers, technology evangelists and problem solvers. Bolstered by robust experience in the Data Storage industry, our team of Sales Professionals and Pre-Sales Solutions Architects lead our product into new markets and enable us to delight a growing customer base with our innovative data platform solutions.
About The Position
Qumulo's Pre-Sales Solutions Architect will be a key addition to our field sales organization. This person will utilize their understanding of cloud data platforms to assess customer needs and build strong business cases for our solutions. They will not only become a trusted advisor with potential and current customers, but also become a champion for customer success. Ultimately, you are a technologist, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts in easy-to-understand terms to C-Level customers. You are naturally curious, and someone who is not afraid to get your hands dirty. You appreciate the diversity of challenges in working with both partners and customers in a startup environment.
Responsibilities

• Lead solution design and customer engagement by translating needs into scalable architectures, participating in deep-dive discussions, articulating value propositions, and delivering high- and low-level designs.
• Support the sales cycle through technical proposals, RFP responses, whitespace analysis, business planning, and by guiding deal strategy, qualification, and forecasting.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with customers, using strong communication, storytelling, and objection-handling skills to influence decisions and challenge perspectives when needed.
• Stay current on industry trends and contribute to thought leadership (case studies, white papers, media) to strengthen market positioning.
• Deliver hands-on demonstrations and proof-of-concept deployments to validate solutions and overcome objections.
• Travel up to 20% across the NW United States.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in pre-sales engineering, including 3–5 years focused on cloud, unstructured data, and file/object storage technologies.
• Strong technical foundation in cloud platforms, end-user compute, and operating systems (Windows, Linux, Unix/BSD), with knowledge of SMB, NFS, and S3 protocols.
• Experience designing solutions across edge, datacenter, and cloud environments, including hybrid storage architectures.
• Proven ability to manage customer relationships, conduct business and technical discovery, and deliver solutions that drive growth across industries.
• Familiarity with competitive storage technologies (e.g., NetApp, Dell Technologies, PowerScale, VAST Data, Pure Storage, Ceph, Lustre, Scality, Weka) and knowledge of Pacific Northwest storage and cloud markets.
• Strong communication, presentation, and consultative/value-selling skills, including whiteboarding, demos, and objection handling for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field; relevant certifications (AWS, Azure, storage) preferred.

The annual On-Target Earnings (OTE) for this role is $175,000 - $265,000 with uncapped commission and lucrative accelerator opportunities.
Individual pay depends on various factors, such as role level, relevant experience and skills. Pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the pay range applicable at the time.
Benefits & Perks

• Pre-IPO stock options
• Flexible time-off policy
• HSA and PPO health insurance options
• Dental and Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Choice of an ORCA card or parking subsidy

About Qumulo
Built for the most demanding enterprise workloads, from AI and HPC simulations to Splunk Observability, genomics and PACS medical imaging, geospatial datasets, media editing and rendering, and video surveillance, Qumulo unlocks the full power of an organization’s information. Our platform unifies file and object storage across data centers, edge, and public clouds, enabling efficient, accelerated computing and extending the reach of data unbound by protocol or transport limitations.
With more than 1,100 customers and exabytes of data under management, Qumulo powers mission-critical workloads anywhere real-time access to massive file datasets is non-negotiable. Qumulo delivers radical simplicity, hardware freedom, exceptional customer support, and a true hybrid-cloud architecture.
Our Values
At Qumulo, we are building an open and collaborative culture where people can do their best work with customers as our magnetic field. We act as owners, we share by default, we are data driven and experimental and as an inclusive workplace, we encourage and celebrate multiple points of view. As part of our culture we believe diversity drives innovation.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Qumulo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law. For more information on Qumulo's Applicant Privacy Policy, please visit: https://qumulo.com/applicant-employee-privacy-notice