Pure Storage · 8 hours ago
Bare Metal Kubernetes Engineer
Santa Clara, California
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$175K/yr - $263K/yrPure Storage is fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry and is seeking a Bare Metal Kubernetes Engineer to lead the design and operation of large-scale bare-metal Kubernetes environments. This role involves ensuring reliable platforms for global R&D teams and driving product innovation through infrastructure automation and operational excellence.
Cloud ComputingData StorageEnterprise Software
Responsibilities
Architect Production-Grade Ecosystems: Lead the design and deployment of large-scale bare-metal clusters, integrating control planes with Portworx and Pure Storage arrays to deliver high-performance persistent storage
Scale Network Infrastructure: Own the implementation of advanced cluster networking (Cilium, BGP, L4/L7 load balancing) to ensure seamless, low-latency communication across multi-rack and multi-site topologies
Drive Operational Excellence via GitOps: Build and maintain automated, self-healing workflows using ArgoCD and CI/CD pipelines to manage cluster lifecycles, ensuring zero-touch deployments and consistent platform health
Guarantee Reliability and Security: Define and meet rigorous SLIs/SLOs by engineering robust observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana) and enforcing airtight security through RBAC, OIDC, and network isolation
Collaborate and Mentor: Partner with internal business units to onboard complex workloads—like KubeVirt or GitHub Actions runners—while elevating the technical bar for the team through design reviews and mentorship
Qualification
Required
Deep technical command of Kubernetes internals (API server, etcd, scheduler) and a proven track record of managing production clusters on bare-metal infrastructure
Proficiency in driving 'Infrastructure as Code' using tools like Ansible or Terraform, combined with the ability to build custom tooling or integrations in Go or Python
Expert-level knowledge of Linux systems administration and container networking, including hands-on experience with CNI plugins, BGP, and spine-leaf architectures
Experience building comprehensive monitoring and logging frameworks (ELK, Prometheus) and a commitment to root-cause analysis and incident prevention
The ability to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical designs and communicate those strategies effectively to both stakeholders and peers
Benefits
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Company
Pure Storage
Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Founded in 2009
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$529.26MKey Investors
T. Rowe PriceIndex VenturesRedpoint
2015-10-06IPO
2014-08-11Secondary Market· $60M
2014-04-22Series F· $225M
Leadership Team
Charles Giancarlo
CEO and Chairman
Michael Cornwell
CTO - Americas
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