Pure Storage
Forward Deployed Engineering, Portworx
$208K–$305K
Bellevue, Washington +4 · Full-time · Posted Aug 18, 2026
- Location
- Bellevue, Washington
Chicago, Illinois
New York, New York
Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara, California, United States - Experience
- 5+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering, SRE, architecture, or field and solutions engineering roles.
About the job
Advises strategic customers on production Kubernetes storage deployments, designing and validating Portworx architectures and translating field experience into reusable guidance and product feedback.
What you'll do
- Design and review production architectures; assess infrastructure constraints and guide failure-mode and performance validation.
- Advise customers through critical deployments, build relationships with technical teams and leaders, and hand off documentation that supports independent operations.
- Capture structured field feedback and partner with Product, Engineering, Sales Engineering, Customer Success, and Support.
What they ask for
- 5+ years in infrastructure or platform engineering, SRE, architecture, or field and solutions engineering roles.
- Unix & Linux administrator experience and deep Kubernetes expertise grounded in production cluster operations (CKA/CKS or equivalent).
- Strong command of enterprise storage, server hardware, virtualization, data center networking, and Linux systems.
- Strong technical writing, relationship-building, and judgment in consultative customer engagements.
Nice to have
- Prior forward deployed, field engineering, or professional services experience; Portworx, CSI-based storage, or enterprise storage vendor experience.
- Familiarity with cloud and managed Kubernetes platforms (EKS, AKS, GKE, OpenShift).
Pay
$208,000 — $305,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Portworx, Kubernetes, Fibre Channel SAN, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP, VMware vSphere, ESXi, KubeVirt
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