THE ROLE 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 it's 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. WHAT YOU'LL DO Directly manage a development team focused on projects related to Linux kernel development, new Flash array platforms, Fiber Channel and Ethernet protocols and features Work closely with Program managers, Release managers and other peer teams contributing to cross functional projects Work with partners and vendors to integrate third party deliverables into the product In coordination with Purity software teams - drive detailed software plans for Purity releases. Develop plans for continuous integration, and phased execution. Collaborate with product managers and engineering teams in getting requirements. Responsible for the overall development life cycle of the solution and managing projects. Instill best practices of software development and documentation, assure designs meet requirements and deliver high quality work on tight schedules. Clearly and regularly communicate status on how projects are progressing. Managing day-to-day software engineering development activities. Hiring, managing, monitoring and motivating software development team members. Driving innovation while at the same time managing software development schedules. Integrate software with existing systems. Driving company culture and career development to individual contributors. WHAT YOU BRING Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or equivalent. 3 plus years of technical lead or management experience, while staying hands-on in development 5 plus years of Linux kernel or protocol development experience in servers, networking or storage, ideally on x86 NUMA systems. 2+ years experience collaborating with remote teams based in the US or some other country. Experience in technologies and industry standards such as NVMe, NFS, iSCSI, Fiber Channel, SCSI, or protocols such as SMB,NFS. Experience in Agile development and continuous integration in development projects. Proficiency in C/C++ and scripting languages such as python/shell Working knowledge of Linux virtualization tools, or data path technologies such as DPDK Proven expertise in managing projects throughout the entire SDLC, delivering products to market on schedule, and ensuring feedback loops from customers into development Detail oriented, with experience in defining, partitioning, prioritizing software requirements across remote teams. Skilled in flushing out dependencies and roadblocks. Demonstrated skills of managing software innovation and meeting development deadlines in a product company. Data driven, with an ability to extract insights and make forecasts based on available information. Experienced in Agile and DevOps practices.

About Pure Storage

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) uncomplicates data storage, forever. Pure delivers a cloud experience that empowers every organization to get the most from their data while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. Pure’s commitment to providing true storage as-a-service gives customers the agility to meet changing data needs at speed and scale, whether they are deploying traditional workloads, modern applications, containers, or more. Pure believes it can make a significant impact in reducing data center emissions worldwide through its environmental sustainability efforts, including designing products and solutions that enable customers to reduce their carbon and energy footprint. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world.