Principal Sofware Engineer, Applied AI
Pure Storage1 day ago
Base Salary
$203k - $275k/yr
Responsibilities
- Establish the technical roadmap and release scope by translating customer needs into product priorities and making build, defer, and cut decisions.
- Design the platform runtime, workload-isolation boundaries, and public APIs while leading threat modeling and audit preparation.
- Write and review production code, direct AI coding workflows, debug low-level and distributed systems, and verify workloads on real hardware and customer-like environments.
- Mentor senior engineers and establish resilient engineering, testing, and release practices.
- Work with early design partners to support a successful first launch.
- Define production readiness and ensure dependable installation, upgrades, rollbacks, backup, and disaster recovery in customer environments.
- Manage reliability through incident response and post-mortems.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading the architecture and delivery of mission-critical infrastructure, runtime, or security software operating in production.
- Recent experience writing production code, debugging distributed systems, and managing reliability through incident response and post-mortems.
- Deep mastery in at least two areas including container runtimes and isolation, workload identity and security, Kubernetes, distributed systems, or enterprise storage.
- Experience using AI coding tools with disciplined automated testing, fuzzing, and manual verification of generated code.
- Ability to pragmatically navigate and evolve existing codebases.
- Strong communication skills for aligning engineers, product managers, and customers.
Benefits
- Primarily in-office work from the Santa Clara, California office, except during PTO, work travel, or approved leave.
- Flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.
- Growth and development support, inclusive employee resource groups, and an inclusive workplace.
- The role may be eligible for incentive pay and/or equity.
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About Pure Storage
Pure Storage builds all-flash data storage systems and software for enterprises, including FlashArray and FlashBlade, and offers storage delivered as-a-service for on‑prem and cloud workloads. Its subscription model (Evergreen/Pure as‑a‑Service) supports databases, virtualization, analytics, and AI. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Pure is a public company listed on the NYSE (PSTG).