Principal Software Engineer, HyperScale Build Platform and Tools
Pure Storage · Santa Clara, California
About this role
**Principal Software Engineer, HyperScale Build Platform and Tools** **THE ROLE** The Hyperscale Line of Business builds products for hyperscale customers at exabyte scale. The Build Platform and Tools team owns developer productivity infrastructure (build orchestration, build systems, and containerized build environments). We're seeking a Principal Software Engineer to set technical direction, solve complex problems, and accelerate the entire Hyperscale engineering organization. **KEY RESPONSIBILITIES** • Own technical vision and multi-year architecture for build orchestration, build systems, and containerized environments • Make and document consequential architectural decisions on build system selection, remote execution, caching, and reproducibility • Drive step-change improvements to build speed, reliability, reproducibility, and debuggability • Solve large-scale C/C++ build challenges: dependency decomposition, linking tradeoffs, toolchain management • Diagnose and eliminate whole classes of build-graph correctness issues and flaky builds • Define standards for containerized build environments with clear lifecycle and upgrade paths • Partner with engineering leadership on roadmap, sequencing, and tradeoffs • Influence engineering leaders across the organization on tooling direction and standards • Set operational excellence standards: observability, incident response, capacity planning • Establish engineering metrics that define developer experience • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; grow organizational depth in build systems • Represent the team in org-wide technical forums and design reviews • Work from Santa Clara office (in-office environment) **REQUIRED EXPERIENCE** • Significant depth in infrastructure, developer productivity, build systems, or platform engineering • Track record setting technical direction for platforms used by many teams • Deep expertise in modern build systems (Make, CMake, Buck/Bazel, custom tools) • Experience with large-scale C/C++ builds and production build system migrations • Strong Linux, Docker, and containerized build environment knowledge • CI/CD pipeline design and integration experience • Demonstrated use of engineering metrics to improve build performance • Excellent communication and design documentation skills • Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards **COMPENSATION & BENEFITS** 💰 Base Salary: $217,000–$326,000 USD 📈 Eligible for incentive pay and/or equity 🏢 In-office (Santa Clara) ✨ Flexible time off, wellness resources, team events **ABOUT EVERPURE** Everpure (NYSE: P) is a data platform company closing FY26 with $3.7B revenue. We're committed to innovation, growth, and building an inclusive team where every voice matters. Named Fortune's Best Workplaces in Technology™ and certified as a Great Place to Work®. **Equal Opportunity Employer** | Accommodations available for candidates with disabilities
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