Pure Storage
Technical Lead, Flashblade//EXA
$239K–$359K
Santa Clara, California +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 7, 2026
- Location
- Santa Clara, California
Santa Clara, California, United States
About the job
Own performance architecture, validation, and competitive positioning for FlashBlade//EXA storage systems serving AI and high-performance computing workloads.
What you'll do
- Translate storage protocol expertise into performance requirements and align roadmaps and reference architectures with GPU-cloud and sovereign-cloud needs.
- Lead stack-wide performance validation and reproducible benchmarking across storage, RDMA networking, and compute.
- Develop competitive architecture analyses and define multi-tenant QoS, workload isolation, and SLA validation frameworks.
What they ask for
- Expertise in storage performance engineering across file, block, and object protocols.
- Strong working knowledge of GPU cluster architecture, RDMA fabrics, GPUDirect Storage, and bottleneck diagnosis across compute, network, and storage.
- Proficiency with benchmark standards and load-generation tools, and ability to design workload-representative tests.
- Ability to perform architecture-level competitive analysis and lead complex technical discussions across teams and customer evaluations.
Pay
$239,000 — $359,000 USD (annual base salary)
Tools
NFSv3 direct-to-DN, pNFS, S3, RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, MLPerf Storage, IO500, elbencho
AI focus
Define and validate storage performance for AI factories and GPU infrastructure, including GPU-starved read patterns and high-throughput workloads.
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