Senior Solutions Engineer
Summary
A pre-sales Senior Solutions Engineer at Nasuni who partners with Account Executives to lead technical discovery, solution design, demos, and proof-of-concept engagements for enterprises modernizing and protecting unstructured file data. Core focus: file services/NAS, cloud storage (AWS/Azure/GCP), migration, backup/DR, and ransomware resilience around the Nasuni platform.
Senior Solutions Engineer
Location: Seattle, Los Angeles or San Francisoso / Remote
Role overview
Nasuni is looking for a Senior Solutions Engineer to serve as a trusted technical advisor to commercial customers and prospects across the Pacific Time Zone/Western Region. Partnering closely with Account Executives, you will lead technical discovery, solution design, demonstrations, architecture discussions, and proof-of-concept engagements for organizations evaluating how to modernize and protect their unstructured data.
You will translate complex customer requirements across file infrastructure, cloud, data protection, security, migration, and business continuity into scalable solutions built around the Nasuni platform.
This role is well suited for an experienced pre-sales professional who enjoys owning technically complex opportunities, communicating with audiences ranging from infrastructure architects to executives, and helping customers connect technology decisions to measurable business outcomes. It is not designed as a product-demo-only or post-sales implementation role.
Scope of the role
You will operate independently across complex commercial opportunities while partnering with Sales, Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Support, partners, and customer stakeholders.
You will own technical recommendations within your opportunities, identify architecture and implementation risks, establish technical validation plans, and help customers make informed decisions while maintaining clear ownership boundaries with post-sales teams.
What you'll do
- Lead technical discovery with infrastructure, cloud, security, architecture, and business stakeholders to understand customer requirements, constraints, risks, and success criteria.
- Design and communicate solutions for complex enterprise environments involving file data, cloud storage, migration, backup, disaster recovery, ransomware resilience, security, and hybrid infrastructure.
- Deliver tailored demonstrations, workshops, and technical presentations for audiences ranging from practitioners and architects to senior technology executives.
- Own technical evaluations and proof-of-concept engagements, including objectives, success criteria, architecture, execution, issue resolution, and final recommendations.
- Translate Nasuni's technical capabilities into business value and help Account Executives advance opportunities through informed technical decision-making.
- Build trusted relationships with customers, partners, and internal account teams throughout complex sales cycles.
- Surface recurring customer requirements and field insights to Product, Engineering, and Marketing.
- Contribute reusable technical content, enablement, demonstrations, and field best practices while mentoring other Solutions Engineers when appropriate.
- Support technically complex RFI/RFP responses, proposals, and solution documentation.
- Use AI-enabled tools appropriately to accelerate research, discovery synthesis, technical preparation, documentation, and customer communication while validating outputs and protecting confidential information.
Qualifications
Must-have
- Demonstrated success in enterprise Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, technical pre-sales, or a closely related customer-facing infrastructure role.
- Experience independently leading technical discovery and solution design for complex enterprise opportunities.
- Experience planning and leading customer evaluations, pilots, or POCs with defined technical success criteria.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise infrastructure concepts including file services/NAS, cloud infrastructure, identity, networking, security, backup, disaster recovery, or data migration.
- Working knowledge of at least one major cloud ecosystem: AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Ability to communicate technical architecture and business value effectively to architects, practitioners, and executives.
- Strong problem-solving, prioritization, documentation, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- Ability to travel based on customer and business needs.
Preferred
- Experience with enterprise file storage, unstructured data, hybrid cloud, NAS modernization, or large-scale data migration.
- Hands-on familiarity with Active Directory, Linux, virtualization, hypervisors, or adjacent enterprise infrastructure technologies.
- Experience supporting large, multi-site or technically complex enterprise customers.
- Experience partnering with channel or technology partners.
Ideal
- AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud certification.
- Experience creating technical enablement, presentations, blogs, demonstrations, or other thought-leadership content.
- Experience mentoring other Solutions Engineers.
- Demonstrated use of AI-enabled workflows to improve technical sales productivity while maintaining rigorous human validation.
Experience guidelines
Strong candidates will typically bring 7+ years of relevant commercial technology experience, including approximately 4+ years in customer-facing solutions engineering, pre-sales, architecture, or technical consulting.
About Nasuni
Nasuni is the unstructured data foundation for enterprise teams—and the AI that supports them. We manage, protect, and activate the world’s unstructured data so organizations can work smarter, spend wisely, and create safely without limits. As a Vista-backed SaaS data infrastructure company, Nasuni is transforming how enterprises manage file data with a next-generation, AI-ready platform—turning massive file stores into secure, actionable, and AI-ready data for intelligent automation, analytics, and global collaboration.
Why work at Nasuni?
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Skills
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Basics
First Name, Last Name, Email, Phone, Resume/CV, Cover Letter, Location
Short answers (2)
- LinkedIn Profile
- What is your desired OTE?
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- Do you require sponsorship to work in the US?
- If selected to move forward, are you willing to complete a 27-minute online assessment (cognitive + personality), provided by Criteria Corp, to help us understand how your strengths align to the role?
- How many years of professional experience do you have in enterprise infrastructure, cloud, data management, storage, security, or related technology?
- How many years have you worked directly in Solutions Engineering, Sales Engineering, technical pre-sales, or a comparable customer-facing architecture role?
- Which best describes your ownership of technically complex enterprise sales opportunities?
- Which best represents your experience with customer POCs, pilots, or technical evaluations?
- Which areas have you applied directly in customer solution design? Select all that apply.
- Which environment best describes where you have been most effective?
- How are you currently using AI in your professional workflow?
- Before using AI-generated technical or customer-facing work, what best describes your normal approach?
Written answers (2)
- Describe a recent technically complex customer opportunity or project. In 5–8 sentences, explain the problem, your specific ownership, the technical decisions you personally made, the scale or complexity involved, and the measurable outcome. Focus on what you did rather than what the team did.
- Is there anything else you'd like the Hiring Manager to know about your experience or interest in this opportunity?