Director of Quality Engineering, FlashArray

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Job info 

In this role as an Engineering Director, Quality Engineering, you will lead multiple engineering teams including managers and senior engineers. You will focus on establishing and driving Enterprise Readiness Strategy for Pure Storage products and enabling our product engineers to deliver high-quality software to our customers and build automated test platforms and infrastructure to accelerate our innovation for our customers. You will provide technical direction, mentoring to engineers on your team, and others to achieve successful project outcomes. The successful candidate must understand the dynamics of global R&D and possess deep knowledge of local culture while at the same time have the ability to adapt to Pure values and leadership attributes. This role requires the ability to lead and influence multiple stakeholders across cross-functional teams. 

You will need to partner with cross functional teams including Development, program and  product management and Customer Support to help identify new use cases and/or current gaps/improvements in our enterprise readiness expectations. You will need to work with the team  and establish a strategy to deliver. As a Quality Engineering leader, you will be involved in scaling up the processes for test driven development to run efficiently in an integrated CI / CD environment and continue to expand the shift left approach for Quality Engineering.

In this role, you'll get to build the teams, driving quality engineering best practices, define quality metrics, collaborate and contribute to the test strategy, test coverage improvements, working closely with stakeholders to define, develop testing and coverage, collaborate and partner with remote teams to continuously evolve FlashArray & FlashBlade Enterprise Quality. Our open culture and transparency in both strategy and operations allow employees a deeper level of engagement in engineering and business decisions and being closely associated with the phenomenal growth. 

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 Will Be Doing 

As an Engineering Director, you will be responsible for leading Engineering Managers, senior engineers and driving FlashArray & FlashBlade Quality Engineering to deliver world's best enterprise class technologies & products. 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. 

• Lead, coach and manage multiple engineering managers, and technical leaders with a focus on enabling Enterprise Readiness through best quality engineering practices to deliver worlds best enterprise class storage product, features and technologies
• Partner closely with the FlashArray and FlashBlade Engineering leadership to create high impact and deep ownership across the organization.
• Partner with Product management to create and successfully deliver initiatives and products.
• Help solve scaling challenges as the team goes through explosive growth.
• Own, define and lead Enterprise Readiness Quality strategy to deliver world’s best storage platform and roadmap, balancing short term and long term priorities against business goals.
• Partner closely with both internal and external stakeholders to create, drive and deliver enterprise quality system-level products through explosive growth.
• Driving “Automation First” Strategy in all our quality engineering practices. 
• Ensure timely delivery of projects and formulate strategic plans to improve testing efficiency and effectiveness.
• Execute existing and new automation strategies to enable and drive engineering teams across business units to build automation@scale.
• Challenge Status-Quo and continue to look for opportunities to improve the process, quality, tooling, importantly enabling shift left approach in software development process. 
• Define and execute on strategies and enabling test coverage for test driven development at scale
• Measure and drive a balance of efficiency and quality improvements
• Define and refine Engineering Quality metrics that provide visibility to “now” and drive teams’ goals.
• Identifying growth opportunities and providing resources for skill development
• Maintain effective communication with external stakeholders to align expectations and deliverables and ensure the team's customers have visibility into ongoing projects and priorities. 

What You Bring To The Team

• 15 plus years in Enterprise Products, with a minimum of 8+ years of Leadership experience including with at least 2+ years of second-level management experience.
• Proven track record on driving and delivering Quality Engineering initiatives end to end.
• 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.
• Experience in building and growing teams.
• Technical hands-on leadership specifically in the area of File System, Storage Ecosystem which includes Linux kernel storage & drivers.
• A passion for continuous improvement and “building stuff” 
• Experience in developing test strategies, proven experience in driving enterprise readiness through software test automation.
• Experience with developing automation frameworks, test automation and developer tools to increase developer and release velocity.
• Experience with test driven development integrated with CI/CD pipelines.
• Demonstrated strong analytical and problem-solving skills in guiding system software network and security and application nuances.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent.

WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US:

• Pure Innovation: We celebrate those who think critically, like a challenge and aspire to be trailblazers.
• Pure Growth: We give you the space and support to grow along with us and to contribute to something meaningful. We have been Named Fortune's Best Large Workplaces in the Bay Area™, Fortune's Best Workplaces for Millennials™ and certified as a Great Place to Work®!
• Pure Team: We build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good.

And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events - check out purebenefits.com for more information. 

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WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM US:

• Pure Innovation: We celebrate those who think critically, like a challenge and aspire to be trailblazers.
• Pure Growth: We give you the space and support to grow along with us and to contribute to something meaningful. We have been Named Fortune's Best Large Workplaces in the Bay Area™, Fortune's Best Workplaces for Millennials™ and certified as a Great Place to Work®!
• Pure Team: We build each other up and set aside ego for the greater good.

And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources and company-sponsored team events. Check out purebenefits.com for more information.

ACCOMMODATIONS AND ACCESSIBILITY:

Candidates with disabilities may request accommodations for all aspects of our hiring process. For more on this, contact us at TA-Ops@purestorage.com if you’re invited to an interview.

WHERE DIFFERENCES FUEL INNOVATION:

We’re forging a future where everyone finds their rightful place and where every voice matters. Where uniqueness isn’t just accepted but embraced. That’s why we are committed to fostering the growth and development of every person, cultivating a sense of community through our Employee Resource Groups and advocating for inclusive leadership. At Pure Storage, diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability are part of our DNA because we believe our people will shape the next chapter of our success story.​ 

Pure Storage is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and people with intersectional identities. We also encourage you to apply even if you feel you don’t match all of the role criteria. If you think you can do the job and feel you’re a good match, please apply.