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Pure Storage · 2 weeks ago

Validation Architect, Test Infrastructure

Santa Clara, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$175K/yr - $263K/yr

Pure Storage is reshaping the data storage industry and is seeking a Validation Architect to lead the transformation of their manufacturing validation infrastructure. This role focuses on architecting fault simulation and CI/CD pipelines to ensure product quality at scale, while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive modern test practices.

Cloud ComputingData StorageEnterprise Software

Comp. & Benefits

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Architect and own the high-scale validation platform, enabling asynchronous, modular, and CI/CD-integrated testing across global manufacturing and engineering operations

Design and implement advanced fault injection and resilience testing frameworks to proactively simulate complex failure conditions across the entire hardware-software stack, ensuring system reliability

Establish and govern data-driven quality through the definition of test criteria, quality gates, and the integration of observability and telemetry into automated pipelines for actionable system performance insights

Drive the modernization of existing test frameworks into a unified, scalable automation strategy, mentoring cross-functional teams (DevOps, QA) on continuous validation best practices and reusable software components

Qualification

CI/CD pipelinesFault injection designResilience testingPythonTelemetry frameworksLogging frameworksObservability frameworksData-driven insightsCross-functional collaborationMentoring

Required

Expert-level design and implementation skills in building and scaling automated CI/CD pipelines for complex hardware-software validation environments (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)

Deep technical expertise in fault injection design and resilience testing principles for complex, distributed systems (e.g., embedded platforms, storage, or high-availability services)

Advanced proficiency in Python for developing reusable test automation libraries and modular, configuration-driven frameworks that support continuous validation workflows

Hands-on experience integrating and utilizing telemetry, logging, and observability frameworks to derive data-driven insights from test pipelines and define robust quality gates

Benefits

Flexible time off

Wellness resources

Company-sponsored team events

Company

Pure Storage

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Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.

Founded in 2009

Santa Clara, California, USA

5001-10000 employees

http://www.purestorage.com

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (166)

2024 (187)

2023 (187)

2022 (189)

2021 (125)

2020 (152)

Funding

Current Stage

Public Company

Total Funding

$529.26M

Key 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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