Associate Solutions Architect – New Grad – Pure Storage
Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) is the all-flash storage pioneer with $3B+ in annual revenues, delivering the world's fastest enterprise storage infrastructure to 11,000+ customers including 57% of the Fortune 500. Pure Storage's FlashArray and FlashBlade platforms are built on proprietary Purity Operating Environment software — delivering consistent sub-millisecond latency, cloud-like simplicity, and evergreen storage economics that eliminate storage refresh cycles. Pure Storage is leading the AI infrastructure revolution with its AIRI AI-ready infrastructure powered by FlashBlade//S and DirectFlash modules designed for GPU-scale AI training and inference. We are hiring New Grad Associate Solutions Architects at Pure Storage's Mountain View headquarters.
Responsibilities
- Design Pure Storage all-flash storage architectures for enterprise customers — recommending FlashArray//C, FlashArray//X, and FlashArray//XL configurations for block, file, and unified storage workloads
- Develop Pure Storage FlashBlade//S architectures for AI and analytics workloads — designing high-bandwidth NFS/S3 object storage solutions for AI training datasets, genomics pipelines, and financial analytics
- Build Pure Storage AIRI AI infrastructure architectures — designing Pure FlashBlade storage integrated with NVIDIA DGX AI compute systems for enterprise AI/ML training environments
- Design Pure Storage Portworx Kubernetes storage architectures — stateful container storage solutions for enterprise DevOps and cloud-native application deployments
- Create storage architecture documentation — capacity sizing worksheets, performance benchmarking reports, and data protection design guides for Pure Storage customer deployments
- Support Pure Storage customer proof-of-concept evaluations demonstrating Pure's performance, simplicity, and total cost of ownership advantages vs. legacy storage systems
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Electrical Engineering
- Understanding of enterprise storage — all-flash arrays, SAN/NAS protocols (iSCSI, NFS, SMB, Fibre Channel)
- Familiarity with AI/ML infrastructure, Kubernetes, or VMware vSphere is valued
- Pure Storage PSP (Pure Storage Professional) certification interest or achievement is a plus
- Strong communication skills for enterprise customer technical presentations and TCO business case discussions
Benefits
- Competitive salary with Pure Storage RSU equity and annual incentive
- Certification reimbursement and Pure Storage University training
- Medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401(k) with Pure Storage matching
- Mountain View headquarters with Pure Storage's fast-growing, innovation-driven culture