Principal Sofware Engineer, Applied AI
Pure Storage · Santa Clara, California
About this role
**Everpure — Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI** **About the role** As a **Principal Software Engineer, Applied AI**, you’ll guide our platform from pre-release into production-ready customer deployments while establishing the engineering standards needed to scale. This is an **individual-contributor leadership** role where you’ll set technical direction, drive product and architecture decisions, and stay actively hands-on with code, systems, and hardware. You’ll collaborate with engineering leadership, a senior core team, product management, and early design-partner customers—leading through technical rigor, decisive ownership, and pragmatic execution. **What you’ll do** - **Technical Strategy & Scoping:** Establish the technical roadmap and release scope; turn customer needs into clear priorities and make sound trade-offs on what to build, defer, or cut. - **Architecture & Security:** Design the platform runtime, workload isolation boundaries, and public APIs; lead threat modeling and audit preparation for security assessments. - **Hands-on Engineering:** Write and review code; direct AI coding workflows; debug low-level systems; verify workload behavior on real hardware and customer-like setups. - **Team Execution & Partner Alignment:** Mentor senior engineers; establish resilient engineering and release practices; work directly with early design partners to ensure a successful first launch. - **Customer Deployment & Reliability:** Define production readiness; ensure installation, upgrades, rollbacks, backup, and disaster recovery run dependably in customer environments. **What you bring** - **Production Systems Leadership:** Proven track record leading architecture and delivery of mission-critical infrastructure, runtime, or security software in production. - **Hands-on Systems Depth:** Recent experience writing production code, debugging distributed systems, and managing reliability through incident response and post-mortems. - **Infrastructure Expertise:** Deep mastery in at least two core areas such as container runtimes and isolation, workload identity/security, Kubernetes, distributed systems, or enterprise storage. - **Modern Engineering Practices:** Experience using AI coding tools with disciplined automated testing, fuzzing, and manual verification of generated code. - **Codebase & Communication Skills:** Ability to pragmatically navigate and evolve existing codebases, with strong communication to align engineers, product managers, and customers. - **Location:** Primarily **in-office**; expected to work from the **Santa Clara, CA** office (unless on PTO, travel, or other approved leave). **Compensation (base salary range)** - **$203,000 – $275,000 USD** **What you can expect from us** - **Innovation:** Think critically, enjoy challenges, and aspire to be trailblazers. - **Growth:** Space and support to grow and contribute to something meaningful. - **Team:** Build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good. **Perks & benefits** Flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events. Learn more: http://benefits.everpuredata.com/ **Accommodations & accessibility** Candidates with disabilities may request accommodations for the hiring process. If invited to an interview, contact: **TA-Ops@purestorage.com** **Equal opportunity** Everpure is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on legally protected characteristics.
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