Senior Software Engineer Core Data, FlashBlade

BE PART OF BUILDING THE FUTURE.

What do NASA and emerging space companies have in common with COVID vaccine R&D teams or with Roblox and the Metaverse? 

The answer is data, -- all fast moving, fast growing industries rely on data for a competitive edge in their industries. And the most advanced companies are realizing the full data advantage by partnering with Pure Storage. Pure’s vision is to redefine the storage experience and empower innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data. With 11,000+ customers including 58% of the Fortune 500, we’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions. 

Pure is blazing trails and setting records:

• For ten straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant 
• Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a certified Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally
• Industry analysts and press applaud Pure’s leadership across these dimensions
• And, our 5,000+ employees are emboldened to make Pure a faster, stronger, smarter company as we go
  
  

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.

SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE…

The Core Data team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to develop the distributed core modern data store at the heart of Pure’s Flash Arrays. This includes the metadata database as well as the flash medium mapping of petabytes of files and objects on flash segments. We are looking for an engineer in this role who will make Pure’s Purity software applications on top of the database more capable, stable and performant with new database features and scalability. This engineer will also scale Pure’s All-Flash Arrays with newer high capacity storage by enhancing performance, reliability, resource consumption, space utilization and storage wear through database engineering techniques. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Designing and developing software and driving projects for the database and metadata management on Pure’s Purity software platform.
• Understand the needs of the customer workloads and the requirements of the platform applications. Apply algorithms and data structures with tradeoffs between compute, memory, IO and messaging to enhance the performance, functionality and scalability of the applications for customer workloads and the database itself.
• Stress Testing, profiling, troubleshooting and measuring performance through scripting, log scraping, metrics export and data analytics.
• Work as a team with smart peers who inspire you and who are inspired by you
• Make customers really happy, because that’s why we do what we do
• Learn a ton, whether you know a lot, or nothing about system software

If this describes you, let's talk! You can take a part in changing how the world works with data.

 WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE...

• 6+ years experience using C++ (< 1 year experience? We have special opportunities for you! Please apply directly to our University roles on our careers page)
• Low level concurrent programming with systems fundamentals, multi-threading, IO, scheduling. Excellent experimentation and troubleshooting for issues such as races, corruptions, performance etc.
• Expertise in modern database theory, concepts and techniques including Log-Structured-Merge tree optimization, storage engine, schema design, scalable Key-Value stores, autonomous tuning and workload optimization.
• Bonus: Expertise in Replication/Snapshots/Consistency, Multi-tenant security of databases with bring your own key, Compression of the database.
• Distributed Systems expertise
• Proven design sensibility and the willingness to work in a collaborative, team oriented environment
• Experience in any number of related systems software projects e.g: Distributed systems, Operating systems, Linux Kernel, Database internals, Hypervisors, Containers, Compiler Optimization, etc.
• A BS degree in Computer Science; Advanced degrees are a bonus!
• Must be willing and able to work in an open office environment

You will be based in Santa Clara, CA. As this is an office-centric role, you are expected to be present in the office for 4 days a week. As outlined i