Staff Software Engineer - HyperScale Build Platform and Tools
Pure Storage · Santa Clara, California
About this role
**Everpure — Staff Software Engineer (HyperScale Build Platform and Tools)** ## About the role The Hyperscale Line of Business builds and ships products to hyperscale customers at exabyte scale, with an emphasis on speed, reliability, and operational excellence. The **Build Platform and Tools** team owns the developer productivity infrastructure—**build orchestration, build systems, and containerized build environments**—that engineers rely on daily. As a **Staff Software Engineer**, you’ll set the technical direction for the platform and tackle its hardest problems. You’ll define the **multi-year architecture** for build infrastructure across the Hyperscale org, lead the highest-ambiguity technical work, and raise the engineering bar across the teams around you. Success is measured by how much faster the organization moves—not just what you personally ship. ## What you’ll do - Own the technical vision and **multi-year architecture** for build orchestration, build systems, and containerized build environments across Hyperscale. - Make and document consequential architectural decisions, including: - build system selection and migration - remote execution and caching strategy - hermeticity and reproducibility guarantees - tradeoffs and developer impact - Drive step-change improvements to **build speed, reliability, reproducibility, debuggability, and ease of use** across local development and CI. - Solve large-scale **C/C++ build** challenges at their root, including: - dependency graph decomposition and pruning - static/dynamic linking tradeoffs - toolchain and sysroot management - incremental correctness - Diagnose and eliminate whole classes of issues such as: - build-graph correctness problems - flaky builds - incremental-build regressions - Define standards for **containerized build environments** (consistent, isolated, reproducible images) with a clear lifecycle and upgrade path. - Partner with the engineering manager to shape the team roadmap, sequence investments, and make explicit tradeoffs between platform work and near-term product delivery. - Influence and align engineering leaders across Hyperscale and the broader organization on tooling direction, migration plans, and shared standards. - Set the operational excellence bar for build infrastructure: - observability - incident response - change management - capacity planning - continuous improvement - Establish engineering metrics that define **developer experience**, justify investment, and demonstrate impact. - Mentor senior and mid-level engineers, review designs, and grow technical depth in build systems and developer productivity. - Represent the team in org-wide technical forums and planning; act as a recognized expert on build infrastructure. - Work primarily **in-office** from the **Santa Clara office** (unless on PTO, travel, or other approved leave). ## What you bring - Significant experience in **infrastructure, developer productivity, build systems, or platform engineering**. - A track record of setting technical direction for a platform used by many teams, and leading multi-team/multi-quarter initiatives to completion. - Deep expertise in modern build systems and toolchains, including dependency management, build-graph correctness, incremental and reproducible builds, remote execution and caching, artifact generation, and build isolation. - Hands-on experience with build systems/toolchains such as **Make, CMake, Buck/Bazel**, or
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