# Quality Systems Engineer - FlashBlade and FlashArray at Pure Storage > United States · Unspecified · Software engineering · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Apurestorage%3A8210922 (read 2026-11-04). ## Facts (observed) - Company: [Pure Storage](https://alderhq.app/companies/pure-storage) - Location text: Santa Clara, California; Office - Santa Clara - Where it can be done from (inferred): United States (evidence: "Location: Santa Clara, California; Office - Santa Clara") - Posted: 2026-09-17 (48 days ago) - First seen by alder: 2026-11-03 · last verified: 2026-11-04 - Reposted: 0 times · edited: 0 times - Apply on the employer's site: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/purestorage/jobs/8210922 - Skills listed (inferred): AWS ## Pay and sponsorship - Posted pay: $217k–$326k per year (from the listing's pay field) - Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 1378): p25 $163k, median $200k, p75 $248k - H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 30, median offered wage $198k ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance)) - Recognised sponsor (NL): registered as "Pure Storage Netherlands B.V." (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://ind.nl/en/public-register-recognised-sponsors/public-register-regular-labour-and-highly-skilled-migrants)) - Licensed UK sponsor: registered as "Pure Storage UK Limited" (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers)) ## Description (the employer's text) Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform, closing fiscal 2026 with $3.7 billion in revenue, its first billion-dollar quarter, and accelerating growth into FY27. Our strategic agenda spans the companies defining the next era of technology - hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem. This type of work—work that changes the world—is what the tech industry was founded on. So, if you're ready to seize the endless opportunities and leave your mark, come join us. ### BE PART OF BUILDING THE FUTURE Since our founding in 2009, Pure Storage has empowered innovators to build a better world with data. In less than eight years, Pure reached $1B in sales, faster than nearly every enterprise company in history, and our incredible growth continues to outpace the competition. Our mission? Deliver a simple, evergreen data platform that enables everyone to turn data into intelligence and advantage. The secret sauce? More than 3,000 team members (and growing!) around the world who join forces to invent the next big thing. And then the next one. The world is experiencing a revolution driven by next-generation technology like AI, machine learning, virtual reality, quantum computing, and self-driving cars—all of which require unprecedented amounts of data. This sets the stage for Pure’s technology to grow exponentially in the coming years. We’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions, and as we continue to gobble up market share, we’re blazing trails and setting records: - For five straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays. - Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a Satmetrix Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally. - Pure puts a premium on the future, investing 26% of revenue into R&D. If you, like us, say “bring it on” to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark. SHOULD YOU ACCEPT THIS CHALLENGE: The FlashArray team builds the industry’s most innovative, high-performance, and highly available portfolio of products that are designed for the most demanding mission critical applications. While we deliver a hardware storage array, over 90% of our engineering staff are software engineers. Our customers are the most important part of our business and they love FlashArray for it's simplicity of management, the constant flow of new and exciting upgrades, and ability to live on the cutting edge of technology while never taking downtime, ever. Most recently, we extended the value of our FlashArray capabilities into the cloud with CloudSnap and Cloud Block Store for AWS. These new innovations enable our customers to leverage the agility of the public cloud for both traditional IT and cloud-native applications. What you'll be doing: - Ensuring releases of the highest quality - Plan, test and qualify shipping releases - Work with Support and Escalation teams to help reproduce and root cause customer issues Identifying, analyzing, and documenting any defects discovered during testing - Triage and debug automated test failures across a multi-machine hardware/software stack Perform ad-hoc, automated and manual testing - Design and build tools and automation to simplify testing and integration workflows Identify any test gaps, perform root cause analysis & close loop with the release engineering. ### WHO YOU ARE - Education & Experience: BS in Computer Science (or equivalent) with 10+ years of software system testing experience. - Storage Domain Expertise: Deep knowledge of the storage stack — high availability, caching, flash, RAID, dedup/compression, filesystems, block storage, I/O paths, latency/throughput trade-offs, consistency, and replication — including designing test strategies for complex storage features. - Protocols & Virtualization: Knowledge of storage protocols (Fibre Channel, FCoE, iSCSI, NVMe, SCSI, NFS, SMB) and virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack), plus experience across multiple operating systems (Linux/Windows/VMware). --- Data: alder (https://alderhq.app). 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