Forward Deployed Engineering, Portworx
Application analysis
Forward Deployed Engineering, Portworx at Pure Storage is a forward deployed data infrastructure role for engineers who want customer-facing technical work with real deployment ownership.
Reading this role
This Forward Deployed Engineer role centers on embedded customer delivery — discovery, prototyping, integration, and production rollout. Key signals from the listing: Kubernetes / containers, Senior scope.
About Pure Storage
Data platform companies win by making complex systems usable in production — field roles prove ROI on live customer data. The role is anchored in Bellevue, California, so expect on-site customer work in that region.
Signals in the listing
Stand out for Forward Deployed Engineering, Portworx
- Lead your application with one paragraph tying Forward Deployed Engineering, Portworx to a specific customer or deployment you owned — Pure Storage hires for shipped outcomes, not tool lists.
- Prepare a 5-minute “week one on site” plan: who you would meet, what you would inspect in their stack, and what artifact you would deliver by day five.
- Show you can go from discovery notes → working integration → production checklist without needing a large internal team.
- For Kubernetes-heavy roles, describe a cluster you operated: upgrades, networking, secrets, observability, and how you debugged a production outage.
- This role is tied to Bellevue, California — mention willingness to work on-site with customers and any existing ties to that market (clients, partners, or domain knowledge).
Stand out at Pure Storage
- Demonstrate data architecture with a concrete example — Pure Storage will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Demonstrate migration experience with a concrete example — Pure Storage will probe for specifics, not buzzwords.
- Bring a migration or optimization story with before/after metrics, not just architecture diagrams.
- Read recent engineering blog posts, product launches, and customer stories on purestorage.com — reference one explicitly in your outreach to show genuine interest.
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Role description
We’re in an unbelievably exciting area of tech and are fundamentally reshaping the data storage industry. Here, you lead with innovative thinking, grow along with us, and join the smartest team in the industry.
- 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
Portworx is building a Forward Deployed Engineering team to embed directly with our most strategic customers during their highest-stakes Kubernetes storage deployments. You'll be the technical bridge between complex customer infrastructure and Portworx itself: designing production architectures, unblocking critical rollouts, and turning field experience into structured product feedback that shapes our roadmap. This is not a support role and not a pure pre-sales role. You'll own engagements end-to-end: from solution validation before you ever get on a plane, through architecture design, production stabilization, and a clean handoff. You'll leave behind documentation and automation that make the next customer's journey faster. Just as important as the technical delivery: this is a relationship-building role. You'll work directly with senior technical leaders (Directors and VPs of Infrastructure and Platform Engineering), and the goal is to become a trusted advisor on their broader platform strategy, not just their Portworx footprint. Done well, this role gives Portworx (and Pure) visibility and influence across the customer's whole platform organization.
What You'll Do
Where possible - reproduce a customer's target environment, whether on-prem or cloud/CaaS, in a lab and validate t