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Senior Systems Engineer (Federal) - DC or Virginia

Qumulo · Washington DC (remote) · Remote

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About Qumulo

Backed by Kleiner Perkins and Madrona.

About the role

This is the technical lead focusing on Qumulo's federal accounts. You'll partner with Sales and customers across the full cycle, from discovery through proof-of-concept, designing storage architectures that meet mission requirements across civilian, defense, and intelligence environments.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years in a customer-facing technical role (Systems Engineer, Solutions Architect, or SE Leader) at a software or technology company, with experience supporting federal customers in pre-sales, solution architecture, or technical consulting
  • Track record leading complex pre-sales engagements end to end in federal environments, with results you can point to
  • Ability to translate mission needs and technical requirements into practical solution designs
  • Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills across technical and executive audiences
  • Ability to influence outcomes across cross-functional teams as a senior individual contributor
  • Experience supporting civilian, DoD, or intelligence community customers
More about this role

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.

This is the technical lead focusing on Qumulo's federal accounts. You'll partner with Sales and customers across the full cycle, from discovery through proof-of-concept, designing storage architectures that meet mission requirements across civilian, defense, and intelligence environments.

The work is hands-on with the people doing the work: customer architects, engineers, operations teams, and security stakeholders, plus the federal partners and systems integrators who bring solutions to end customers. You'll translate mission needs into solutions that perform at scale and hold up to federal security and compliance requirements.

Own the technical relationship on federal opportunities, from discovery and demos through POCs and architecture sign-off

Partner with account teams to qualify deals and develop technical strategies that move opportunities forward

Work with federal partners and systems integrators to design, validate, and position solutions for end customers

Design architectures that address performance, scale,...

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