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Job Summary:
Pure Storage is fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry, and they are seeking a Senior Storage Benchmarking Engineer. This role involves designing, executing, and analyzing performance benchmarks, collaborating with various teams, and troubleshooting performance issues across the entire stack.
Responsibilities:
• Configure HPC lab environment so all systems can achieve maximum efficiency and scale to support a variety of different test harnesses. This includes robust automation to ensure labs can be rapidly configured/reconfigured to meet a variety of different benchmarks.
• Design and execute storage performance benchmarks using industry-standard benchmarks, including fio, vdbench, SPEC SFS 2020, IO500, MLPerf, SPC-1/SPC-2 (or similar benchmarks).
• Perform end-to-end performance troubleshooting and debugging across compute, network, and storage components to pinpoint and resolve bottlenecks and achieve the best possible results.
• Develop and maintain automated benchmarking workflows using tools like Ansible, Python, or Bash to ensure rapid provisioning and efficient, repeatable, and reproducible test results.
• Analyze benchmark results, generate detailed reports, and provide actionable insights to engineering teams for product optimization.
• Collaborate with engineering, product management, marketing, and sales to align benchmarking efforts with product goals and customer needs.
• Engage directly with benchmark standards organizations (e.g., SPEC, SNIA, MLCommons) and communities to influence methodologies and stay ahead of industry trends.
• Deliver high-impact presentations to internal teams, customers, and external stakeholders, translating complex technical data into clear narratives.
• Write technical marketing documents, whitepapers, and performance summaries to support product launches and customer engagement.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation of benchmarking processes, configurations, and results.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience in storage performance benchmarking or a related technical role.
• Proven expertise with storage benchmarking tools, including: fio: Flexible I/O tester for workload simulation, vdbench: Versatile storage benchmarking tool for enterprise workloads.
• Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Spec Sfs2020
• Strong end-to-end performance tuning and troubleshooting skills across the entire stack include compute, network, and storage layers.
• Hands-on experience with automation tools (e.g., Python, Ansible, Bash) for test orchestration and data collection.
• Demonstrated track record of interfacing with engineering, product management, marketing, and sales teams.
• Direct engagement with benchmark standards organizations (e.g., SPEC, SNIA, MLCommons etc) and storage benchmarking communities.
• Exceptional communication skills, with proven ability to deliver engaging technical briefs and presentations to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong writing skills, ideally with experience authoring technical marketing documents, whitepapers, or performance summaries.
• Proficiency in data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Python, R, sheets, Excel, Tableau etc).
• Deep understanding and hands-on proficiency with enterprise storage technologies (e.g., NVMe, SSDs, and scale up and scale out block/file/object storage, distributed systems).
• Experience with Everpure Storage products (e.g., FlashArray, FlashBlade) or similar enterprise block, file and object storage platforms.
• Familiarity with cloud storage (e.g., AWS S3, Azure Blob, Google Cloud Storage) or HPC environments.
• Knowledge of containerized benchmarking workflows using Docker or Kubernetes.
• Prior contributions to benchmark standards or open-source performance tools.
Company:
Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers. Founded in 2009, the company is headquartered in Santa Clara, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.