Performance Engineer, FlashArray

BE PART OF BUILDING THE FUTURE. What do NASA and emerging space companies have in common with COVID vaccine R&D teams or with Roblox and the Metaverse? The answer is data, -- all fast moving, fast growing industries rely on data for a competitive edge in their industries. And the most advanced companies are realizing the full data advantage by partnering with Pure Storage. Pure’s vision is to redefine the storage experience and empower innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data. With 11,000+ customers including 58% of the Fortune 500, we’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions. Pure is blazing trails and setting records: For ten straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a certified Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally Industry analysts and press applaud Pure’s leadership across these dimensions And, our 5,000+ employees are emboldened to make Pure a faster, stronger, smarter company as we go If you, like us, say “bring it on” to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark. SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE... The FlashArray team builds the industry’s most innovative, high-performance, and highly available portfolio of products that are designed for the most demanding mission critical applications. While we deliver a hardware storage array, over 90% of our engineering staff are software engineers. Our customers are the most important part of our business and they love FlashArray for its simplicity of management, the constant flow of new and exciting upgrades, and ability to live on the cutting edge of technology while never taking downtime, ever. Most recently, we extended the value of our FlashArray capabilities into the cloud with CloudSnap and Cloud Block Store for AWS. These new innovations enable our customers to leverage the agility of the public cloud for both traditional IT and cloud-native applications. WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE... Responsibilities Leading a team of motivated engineers to build and review perform benchmarking requirements and metrics to ensure all of FlashArray products deliver the best performance on the platforms they run on Researching and developing performance benchmarking strategies for different product features, come up with best practices for performance planning and collaborate with product managers, solutions and sales engineering to validate customer scenarios and requirements as needed Provide technical direction and mentoring to employees on your team and others to ensure product quality and on-time deliverables Qualifications BS in Computer Science or equivalent. 4+ plus years of technical management experience, at multiple levels while staying hands-on in development. 4+ years of experience in system software development and performance testing for servers, storage and databases. Strong experience with Linux systems: network configuration, storage stack, system settings, common command/utilities. Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, commitment to delivering great software and releasing it efficiently and with increasing quality. Knowledge of SAN iSCSI, NFS, SMB protocols is desirable Prior experience in Python and/or C++

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