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Technical Lead, Flashblade//EXA
Pure Storage INC · 🇺🇸 Santa Clara, California
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 47 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Mar 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 67 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What Pure Storage INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles21 certified filings for “Member of Technical Staff” (Software Developers) in CA: $190k–$220k, median $205k. Most were filed at wage level II (67%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 47 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Mar 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 67 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
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. THE ROLE As the Performance Technical Lead for FlashBlade//EXA, you will define and own the end-to-end performance narrative for Everpure’s exascale disaggregated storage architecture built for AI factories. In this strategic and hands-on role, you will bridge systems performance engineering, benchmark architecture, and competitive intelligence to establish how //EXA is engineered, proven, and positioned against leading competitors in HPC and hyperscale AI infrastructure. You will partner directly with engineering, product management, and field sales teams to drive high-impact architecture evaluations and showcase Everpure’s leadership in high-throughput workloads. WHAT YOU'LL DO • Architect and Define Performance Roadmaps: Translate deep storage protocol expertise (NFSv3 direct-to-DN, pNFS, S3) into technical performance requirements for //EXA’s disaggregated data path to resolve GPU-starved read patterns, metadata storms, and bursty HPC workloads. • Drive Strategic Market Alignment for GPU/Sovereign Cloud: Align //EXA’s performance roadmap, sizing guidance, and reference architectures with the buying criteria and operational needs of multi-tenant GPU-cloud and sovereign-cloud operators. • Establish Competitive Performance Technical Positioning: Develop rigorously substantiated architectural analyses comparing metadata scaling, durability tradeoffs, and GPU-direct paths to empower field engineering during customer technical evaluations and POCs. • Optimize Stack-Wide Tuning and Benchmarking: Lead end-to-end performance validation across storage, RDMA networking, and compute, while building reproducible benchmark suites (MLPerf Storage, IO500, elbencho) that validate public claims and demonstrate market superiority. • Define Multi-Tenant QoS and SLA Guarantees: Establish technical requirements and validation frameworks for quality-of-service, workload isolation, and IOPS limits to deliver predictable SLA commitments in shared deployments. WHAT YOU BRING • Storage Performance Architecture Expertise: Proven expertise in storage performance engineering across file, block, and object protocols (such as parallel filesystems, pNFS/NFS at scale, and S3-scale object stores). • GPU Cluster & Fabric Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of GPU cluster architecture, including RDMA fabrics, GPUDirect Storage, checkpoint/restore dynamics, and resolving bottleneck patterns across compute, network, and storage layers. • Benchmarking & Load Generation Mastery: Proficiency with industry benchmark standards (MLPerf Storage, IO500) and load-generation tools (elbencho, fio, vdbench), alongside the capability to design custom, workload-representative tests. • Competitive Analysis & Systems Design: Demonstrated ability to perform architecture-level competitive analysis, along with a firm grasp of multi-tenant resource management concepts (QoS, rate limiting, and workload isolation) in distributed systems. • Cross-Functional Technical Leadership: Ability to navigate complex technical discussions across the full stack—from debugging low-level network queue stalls to articulating system capabilities directly to customer evaluation teams. • Location: We are primarily an in-office environment and the