Senior Quality Engineering Manager, Storage Solutions, Hyperscale Line of Business

Pure Storage•Santa Clara, CA

11d•Onsite

About The Position

We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest team in the industry. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. THE ROLE We are seeking an innovative Senior Quality Engineering Manager to lead the end-to-end quality strategy for our groundbreaking Hyperscale Line of Business. You'll lead a team in shaping a quality culture for a first-of-its-kind product that will redefine how hyperscalers consume flash. This is a unique opportunity to fundamentally reshape the data storage industry by building a solution that will run at a massive scale in datacenters worldwide. You will combine hands-on technical leadership, people management, and a customer-first mindset to ensure our solutions meet the exacting standards of our partners.

Requirements

Technical Leadership: Experience leading quality engineering for systems products such as storage, networking, SSDs, or large-scale distributed software.
Automation Expertise: A strong background in test automation frameworks and languages (e.g., Python, Go, Java) with experience embedding automation into developer workflows.
System-Level Validation: Proven ability to define and lead full-stack test strategies, including validating products in hyperscale or cloud-scale environments.
Customer-Centric Mindset: Experience collaborating with support, escalation, and customer-facing teams to resolve quality issues and incorporate field learnings into the product lifecycle.
Strategic Influence: Demonstrated ability to influence product design and serve as a key quality voice for engineering and customers.
Strong experience with SSD validation.

Responsibilities

Drive End-to-End Quality: Own and lead the quality strategy from concept to release, defining and enforcing rigorous system-level test plans.
Champion Automation: Foster a culture of automation by driving its implementation at every layer, from developer CI pipelines to large-scale system test harnesses.
Lead Release Readiness: Serve as the final quality gatekeeper for system readiness, establishing and driving organizations toward strict release criteria and quality metrics.
Influence Design: Go beyond testing to influence product design and serve as the quality voice for both engineering and customers.
Resolve Field Issues: Partner with escalation and customer-facing teams to reproduce customer issues, drive root cause analysis, and ensure permanent resolution.