Senior Platform Software Engineer, System Engineering
Pure StorageSanta Clara, California
Full Time
Posted December 19, 2025
$175k - $317k
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Job Description
This role involves designing, developing, and debugging high-performance, mission-critical system software for advanced data storage platforms, with a focus on hardware-software integration, high availability, and system reliability.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect and deliver core system software for high-performance storage platforms
- Own the full development lifecycle of mission-critical system components
- Design, develop, and debug high-performance, mission-critical system software in C/C++
- Develop and integrate control plane features to ensure high availability and manageability
- Collaborate with hardware engineering and software teams to define hardware-software interfaces
- Implement low-level system components such as firmware management, drivers, and networking functionality
- Lead complex technical assignments, set code quality standards, and provide technical guidance
Requirements
- Exceptional proficiency in C, C++11, and beyond, with a proven track record of designing, implementing, and debugging large-scale, high-performance systems software.
- Deep expertise in Linux or UNIX-based systems programming, including a strong understanding of kernel-level concepts and hands-on experience in driver development.
- Demonstrable experience with the full lifecycle of hardware-software integration, including system bring-up, platform requirements definition, and debugging low-level interfaces such as BMC, BIOS, PCI-e, I2C, and SMBUS.
- Strong technical leadership skills to independently determine methods on new, complex assignments, make impactful technical recommendations, and informally lead development initiatives.
- Practical experience with storage or L2/L3 networking protocols and components, enabling delivery of features that meet demanding mission-critical application requirements.
- Ability to drive the end-to-end design, development, and debugging of high-performance, mission-critical system software in C and C++ for storage platforms.
- Experience owning the development and integration of critical control plane features like configuration, event handling, and robust failover to guarantee high availability and management simplicity of storage platforms.
- Experience collaborating across engineering teams and with external vendors to define hardware-software interfaces and implement low-level components for system bring-up, driver development, and networking functionality.
- Ability to architect and implement software solutions for complex tasks such as firmware management and updating, minimizing availability impact for thousands of global customers.
- Experience acting as a technical mentor for team members, leading complex assignments, setting high standards for code quality and maintainability, and providing technical guidance on cross-functional initiatives.
- Willingness and ability to work primarily in an in-office environment at the Santa Clara, CA office, in compliance with company policies.
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 175,000 - 317,000 USD annually
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and equity
Work environment primarily in-office at Santa Clara, CA
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
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