What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineering Director position at Pure Storage?
Our Team
Our engineers come from various backgrounds and we thrive off of challenging the norm. This cross-pollination of backgrounds led to numerous ground-breaking ideas and has helped us build one of the most reliable and easy to use storage systems in the industry. We strive to hire the smartest engineers and leaders who are the very best at what they do. We are seeking enthusiastic software engineers to build new architecture for support diagnostics on customer FlashBlade systems.
WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING
As an Engineering Director, you will be responsible for all FlashBlade-specific projects executed in Bangalore. You will lead multiple engineering teams with a focus on the development of the core of Pure’s FlashBlade flagship product.
You will drive product development and grow the engineering organization. The successful candidate must understand the dynamics of global R&D and possess working knowledge of the local culture, while at the same time having the ability to implement Pure values and leadership attributes. This is a matrixed role that requires the ability to lead and influence multiple stakeholders across Business Units and the company. You will be responsible for the creation of products and will partner with product management and various other software teams. You will also provide technical direction and mentoring to employees on your team and others to achieve successful project outcomes.
WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THE TEAM
- 7 years of technical management experience, with at least 2 years of second or third-level management experience
- 10 years of hands-on software development experience with the ability and desire to learn new technology
- Experience in building and growing teams
- Working knowledge of system software development in C and/or C or other relevant language
- Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines
- Experience developing and delivering storage, networking, security or database systems and appliances is a plus
- Proven expertise in managing projects throughout the entire SDLC, delivering products to market on schedule, and ensuring feedback loops from customers into development
- Experience growing an agile (Scrum) environment with short cycles
- Ability to successfully manage multiple projects simultaneously
- Strong customer focus
- Solid knowledge of end-to-end quality best practices
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent written and verbal communications skill
- Patient, energetic and calm under pressure
