Senior Performance Software Engineer, Hyperscale Line of Business
Pure StorageSanta Clara, California
Full Time
Posted February 24, 2026
$180k - $270k
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Job Description
The role involves developing and optimizing high-performance storage solutions for large-scale cloud environments, focusing on benchmarking, debugging, and analyzing system performance using advanced hardware and software techniques in a collaborative, innovative setting.
Key Responsibilities
- Build and review performance benchmarking requirements and metrics for storage solutions
- Research and develop performance benchmarking and debugging strategies
- Analyze system performance issues and recommend optimization solutions
- Collaborate with engineering teams to validate customer scenarios and requirements
Requirements
- MS in Computer Science or related technical field, or a BS with comparable experience
- At least 3 years of experience in system level performance testing for servers, storage, and databases
- Experience in systems performance analysis using techniques like CPU profiling, tracing, and standard Linux tools
- Experience in running benchmarks, analyzing results, and communicating findings to development teams
- Extensive knowledge of operating system concepts, including scheduling policies, locking primitives, data structures, and x86 hardware architecture
- Strong experience with Linux systems network configuration, storage stack, system settings, and common command utilities
- Prior experience in Python and C programming languages (preferred)
- Prior experience with NAND flash storage and FIO (Flexible I/O Tester) (preferred)
- Ability to analyze challenging system performance issues and recommend solutions to improve and optimize system performance
- Ability to collaborate with a team of engineers to build and review performance benchmarking requirements and metrics
- Ability to research and develop performance benchmarking and debugging strategies, and establish best practices for performance planning
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Commitment to delivering high-quality software efficiently and with increasing quality
- Willingness to work onsite at the Santa Clara office in accordance with company policies
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 180,000 - 270,000 USD
Work environment: primarily in-office at Santa Clara
Work schedule: flexible time off
Perks: wellness resources, company-sponsored team events
Additional benefits: incentive pay and/or equity
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