Senior Pre-sales Systems Engineer
QumuloCloud Storage company
Seoul, South KoreaSenior
BlackRock
Madrona Venture Group
Highland Capital Partners
Allen & Company
Valhalla Partners
Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Sales & Account Management
About the role
TL;DR
Lead technical presales for Qumulo's enterprise storage solutions in South Korea.
- •As Qumulo's Senior Presales Systems Engineer for South Korea, you'll be the technical lead behind our enterprise growth in one of the region's most demanding markets.
- •Key Responsibilities Run proof-of-concept deployments end to end: rack the gear, configure multi-protocol access (NFS, SMB, S3), debug scripts, and performance tune Linux storage stacks in network-separated (망분리) environments Go deep with customer engineering teams on complex architectures, including multi-protocol configurations, data protection rules, and active-active replication topologies.
- •Translate complex scale-out storage metrics into high-level business value by partnering with Account Executives to navigate Korean enterprise procurement, calculate TCO, and build business cases for C-level buyers.
- •Drive technical and commercial alignment with Korean system integrators (Samsung SDS, LG CNS, SK C&C) and domestic cloud providers (Naver Cloud, KT Cloud) to advance channel pipeline.
- •Surface customers' real pain points through consultative discovery and respectfully question legacy infrastructure assumptions.
- •Act as the bridge between the Korean market and Qumulo's global engineering team, making sure local compliance needs and feature gaps get heard.
- •Present technical sessions in Korean to local engineers and enterprise buyers, and collaborate across APAC and HQ in English.
- •Requirements 7+ years in technical pre-sales, systems engineering, or enterprise storage architecture, with a focus on file/object storage or scale-out distributed systems.
- •Deep knowledge of storage access protocols (NFS v3/v4, SMB, native S3 API integration), enterprise networking (InfiniBand, RoCE, 100GbE+ fabrics), and Linux operating system internals.
- •Working expertise across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, including certification in one or more.
- •A track record of running complex software and hardware evaluations independently, including stress testing (FIO, IOR) and live troubleshooting without relying on back-end support teams.
- •Fluency in Korean and English, written and spoken.
Required skills
S3LinuxAWSAzureGoogle CloudBusiness DevelopmentSalesEnterprise SalesAccount ManagementNegotiationChannel SalesTechnical Leadership
Nice-to-have skills
Market AnalysisCustomer Service
Tech stack
S3LinuxAWSAzureGoogle Cloud
