Director of Software Engineering, Pure Storage
Core Platform
$263-395k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
Data storage company
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Data storage company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$263-395k
Office located in Santa Clara, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
To redefine the storage experience and empower innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data.
Role
Who you are
- Proven Leadership in Scale: Demonstrated success as a battle-tested leader directing multiple engineering teams through subordinate managers, with a track record of stabilizing complex organizations and developing leadership talent
- Deep Systems Expertise: Substantial background in systems software, distributed systems, or storage infrastructure, allowing you to engage credibly with senior engineers on complex technical trade-offs
- Strategic Change Management: Ability to analyze abstract situations across functional areas, build consensus in sensitive situations, and negotiate critical technical paths across product and architecture partners
- Operational Excellence: Strong instincts for enterprise infrastructure health, including budgeting resources, establishing performance requirements, and implementing strategic testing frameworks where correctness is non-negotiable
- Location: We are primarily an in-office environment and therefore, you will be expected to work from the Santa Clara, CA office in compliance with Everpure’s policies, unless you are on PTO, or work travel, or other approved leave
What the job involves
- As the Director of Software Engineering for Core Platform, you will lead a 20+ person engineering organization responsible for the foundational architecture that powers FlashBlade’s industry-leading data storage solutions
- You will champion the convergence of critical metadata systems across our major product lines, advance next-generation data reduction capabilities, and stabilize high-performance resource management frameworks
- Collaborating closely with peer engineering organizations, Architecture, and Product Management, your mission is to deliver bulletproof infrastructure that impacts our global platform scale for years to come
- Own FlashBlade's Architectural Foundations: Lead and direct engineering teams responsible for metadata infrastructure, resource allocation, and system configuration layers, ensuring zero-downtime reliability and optimized performance at massive scale
- Advance High-Impact Data Reduction: Provide strategic direction and organizational stability to mature an early-stage data reduction capability into a core, market-differentiating product asset
- Drive Global Platform Convergence: Direct the cross-functional engineering initiatives to unify critical shared infrastructure across flagship product lines, successfully managing complex architectural dependencies and rigorous testing disciplines
- Cultivate and Stabilize Engineering Talent: Act as an intentional leader to your organization by coaching engineering managers, mentoring technical staff, and building a sustainable culture of craft, accountability, and continuous operational improvement
- Govern Delivery Health and Operational Rigor: Define and enforce corporate reliability standards, automated testing disciplines, and proactive technical debt management to secure the long-term success of our functional business units
Our take
Named one of the top 50 Hottest Edge Hardware, Software, and Services Companies of 2022, Pure Storage is a data storage company that helps tech and software businesses leverage the continuous innovations of AI and machine learning through its storage solutions. From Roblox to NASA, many of Pure Storage’s customers are leaders in their fields.
After seeing rapid revenue growth in the early 2010s despite overall losses, Pure Storage’s 2015 IPO benefitted the company over the next half-decade, spreading losses with public trade. The risk especially paid off when many companies migrated to cloud services in the 2020s.
As data centers flew into the crosshairs of sustainable energy efforts, Pure Storage has remained on the right side of publicity through its Evergreen // One portfolio, a flexible consumption-based storage model for providers. In January 2023, Pure Storage reported continued subscription growth for this model and should continue on track as its hefty and influential client list evolves to meet sustainability goals.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
19% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Apr 2014
$225m
SERIES F
Aug 2013
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $474.9m
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
John Colgrove
(CTO)Previously EIR at Sutter Hill Ventures, Fellow at Symantec Software, and Engineer at Amdahl.
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