Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform Business Unit

Pure Storage • Santa Clara, CA

80d • $175,000 - $263,000

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.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in designing scalable architectures and building reliable systems end-to-end.
• Deep expertise with CI/CD platforms and modern automation practices for large-scale systems.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Python, Rust), with a track record of building automation, developer tooling, or scalable services.
• Strong Linux/Unix fundamentals, including advanced troubleshooting, debugging, and performance tuning.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (Kubernetes preferred; Docker Swarm, Nomad, or similar are also valuable).
• Proven background in observability, with experience designing and integrating monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting into CI/CD pipelines and production systems.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with build systems (e.g., Bazel, CMake), cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), or contributions to open-source CI/CD and developer productivity projects.

Responsibilities

• Design and build developer platforms and automation services that improve reliability, scalability, and velocity of software delivery.
• Architect and implement high-availability solutions (disaster recovery, failover, scaling strategies).
• Develop services, frameworks, and automation tooling in Python, Go, or Rust to improve developer productivity and system reliability.
• Extend and optimize CI frameworks (e.g., Jenkins or equivalent) for complex, multi-machine, distributed build/test environments.
• Apply strong Linux/Unix fundamentals to design resilient systems, debug issues across layers, and tune performance.
• Embed security into CI/CD systems by design, including access control, patch automation, and system hardening.
• Drive capacity planning and system optimization, ensuring efficient utilization of infrastructure and resources.
• Perform risk analysis and mitigation through proactive vulnerability assessments and automation of remediation processes.
• Build observability and debugging tools to surface metrics, logs, and traces that accelerate troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
• Standardize and advance monitoring, logging, and incident management practices across engineering teams.
• Collaborate closely with developers to integrate CI/CD systems into the full development lifecycle, ensuring fast, reliable, and secure code delivery.
• Participate in on-call rotation, incident postmortems, planning, and continuous improvement initiatives, bringing a software engineer's perspective to reliability and scalability challenges.

Benefits

• Flexible time off
• Wellness resources
• Company-sponsored team events
• Incentive pay and/or equity

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees