Performance Software Engineer, FlashArray

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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.

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.

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...

• 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

WHAT YOU BRING TO THE TEAM...

• MS in Computer Science or related technical field, BS with comparable experience
• 6+ years of experience in system level performance testing for servers, storage and databases
• Knowledge of SAN iSCSI, NFS, SMB protocols
• Experience in systems performance analysis using techniques like CPU profiling, tracing and standard Linux tools
• Experience in running benchmarks, analyzing results, communicating your findings to development teams
• Extensive knowledge of operating system, scheduling policies, locking primitives, data structures, x86 hardware architecture
• Strong experience with Linux systems (network configuration, storage stack, system settings, common command/utilities)
• Prior experience in Python and C++ is preferred
• Prior experience with NAND flash and FIO are pluses
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills; commitment to delivering great software and releasing it efficiently and with increasing quality

You will be based in Santa Clara. As this is an office-centric role, you are expected to be present in the office for 4 days a week. As outlined in Pure's Hybrid Work Policy, there will be variations over periods of time, depending on business need.

*The annual base salary range is: $163,000– $259,000. Salary ranges are determined based on role, level and location. For positions open to candidates in multiple geographical locations, the base salary range is reflective of the labor market across the applicable locations. *

*This role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity. *

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And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.

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