Director, Software Engineering Fleet Reliability

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SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE...

Are you passionate about driving product reliability at scale? As the Software Engineering Director, for our Forensics/ Fleet Reliability team you’ll lead a group dedicated to ensuring the highest reliability of Pure’s newest product offering. Your mission will be to manage and improve the systems and processes that monitor and respond to fleet reliability issues—whether through reactive, proactive, or predictive measures. You’ll own the coordination of responses to critical issues, ensuring reliability through monitoring systems that detect, address, and prevent failures across all deployed systems.

Your team will be at the forefront of analyzing and solving the toughest production challenges, using forensic investigation techniques to identify critical software failures. The insights from these investigations will drive significant improvements, from fixing bugs and influencing new features to developing automation and monitoring tools that prevent future failures.

This role is highly collaborative, interacting with cross-functional teams—including hardware, software, support, and sales—and directly engaging with customers to resolve complex issues that impact their environments. You will be responsible for shaping the future of Pure Storage’s product reliability.

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE…

• Lead a team of forensic engineers focused on improving the reliability, performance, and resilience of Pure’s products.
• Own and drive initiatives to improve fleet reliability by fixing critical bugs, enhancing test automation, and developing new features and processes.
• Define the roadmap for internal tools development, focusing on predictive monitoring, health checks, performance troubleshooting, and failure investigation tools.
• Coordinate and approve maintenance releases across all software lines, ensuring engineering teams contribute effectively while maintaining high-quality standards.
• Collaborate with hardware, software, support, and customer-facing teams to triage customer issues, assign ownership, and set expectations for resolution.
• Manage the team’s priorities, career development, and growth while fostering a culture of innovation and customer focus.
• Oversee product reliability metrics to measure success and adjust priorities to ensure continuous improvement.
• Own the global software engineering on-call program, coordinating efforts across multiple teams and ensuring its success when support escalates critical issues.
• Report key product and customer issue updates to executive leadership.
• Be the voice of Pure Engineering on customer calls and the voice of the customer in strategic meetings, advocating for solutions and improvements.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE…

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on systems, storage, networking, or reliability.
• 7+ years of experience in a leadership or