[SVLUG-Jobs] Software Reliability Engineer, Pure Storage, Mountain View

[Rick Moen]

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Software Reliability Engineer

at Pure Storage
Mountain View, CA

Why Pure

Do you thrive on solving difficult cloud operation challenges?   Do you
want to build a scalable cloud production infrastructure for customers?
If you want to be part of the initial team at Pure to develop customer
cloud infrastructure, then read on.

Pure Storage is a fast growing, private company in the heart of the
Silicon Valley, whose world-class engineers are disrupting a $15 billion
annual market (and growing) for enterprise storage. Our founders created
the company with a passion to build storage technology customers love
and deliver it with simplicity and service that fundamentally changes
the enterprise storage experience. With over $470 million in funding
from some of the most prominent venture capitalists, our record revenue
growth has landed us among a very select group of companies. Today,
customers and industries across the world are experiencing the benefits
of going Pure - from healthcare and education to the largest websites,
financial institutions and consumer brands.

Your Future Team

We create the software used by customers to manage, monitor and optimize
their storage arrays in the Cloud.  We’re doing some industry changing
work around systems management and need self-motivated and creative
people to join us. Our engineers thrive on solving difficult cloud
operation challenges. We believe successful software engineers are
focused on software craft and prefer you have experience with continuous
integration, test-driven development and build automation.

Examples of current and future projects:

Uptime measurements across key services
Automated recovery when things break
Develop tools to rapidly deploy and effectively monitor custom
applications in a large-scale AWS environment
What gets you up in the morning?

Writing code and tools to automate the deployment of large scale cloud
applications
Building systems that are highly resilient to failure
Creating elegant solutions to complex cloud infrastructure problems.
Contributing  to the SRE / DevOps technical community by writing a blog
or publishing technical articles.
 

What You Bring To The Team:

6+ years of experience in System Reliability or DevOps for large,
complex, mission critical Internet systems.
Demonstrated knowledge of HTTP/Caching multi-tier web architecture.
Ability to troubleshoot TCP/IP and similar networking protocols.
A love of coding in Python and an understanding of complex algorithms.
Knowledge of configuration management tools - Chef, Puppet and SaltStack.
Ability to deploy & manage applications in Amazon Cloud Services.
Monitoring and trend analysis tools experience such as Graphite or Nagios.
Relational or NoSQL database administration.
Python coding experience.
BS degree. MS preferred.
 

Culture & Perks

Pure is a very special place. What makes and keeps us special is who we
recruit to join us and how we work together. Our culture was shaped
organically as our early team poured their heart and soul into Pure’s
first generation product and supporting our early customers and
partners.  We expect each employee to approach their job at Pure with
the same level of pride and care, and perpetuate the values that are
making us the best storage company in history.

At the center of those values is the belief that the single most
important thing we do is continue to hire the best and create a
workplace where they thrive and enjoy. To reward our employees for the
great work they’re doing we offer a number of perks and benefits,
including:

Flexible vacation - take time off when you need it
Exceptional medical benefits with 100% employer paid premiums
Commuter benefits for public transit and bicycle commuters
Free lunches, dinners, and fully stocked snacks & beverages
Lounge areas with ping pong, foosball, pinball, and arcade games
Company ski trips, boat parties, BBQs, happy hours, game nights.......

Job ID: #LI-AP1