Position: Database Engineer, Portworx(Prague)
Company: Pure Storage
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

BE PART OF BUILDING THE FUTURE.

What do NASA and emerging space companies have in common with COVID vaccine R&D teams or with Roblox and the Metaverse? 

The answer is data, -- all fast moving, fast growing industries rely on data for a competitive edge in their industries. And the most advanced companies are realizing the full data advantage by partnering with Pure Storage. Pure’s vision is to redefine the storage experience and empower innovators by simplifying how people consume and interact with data. With 9,000 customers including 50% of the Fortune 500, we’ve only scratched the surface of our ambitions. 

Pure is blazing trails and setting records:

For eight straight years, Gartner has named Pure a leader in the Magic Quadrant 
Our customer-first culture and unwavering commitment to innovation have earned us a certified Net Promoter Score in the top 1% of B2B companies globally
Industry analysts and press applaud Pure’s leadership across these dimensions
And, our 4,000+ employees are emboldened to make Pure a faster, stronger, smarter company as we go
If you, like us, say “bring it on” to exciting challenges that change the world, we have endless opportunities where you can make your mark.

PURE IN PRAGUE

We opened our R&D Second Home (besides the one in Silicon Valley) in Prague in January 2020 and since then we have experienced unbelievable growth. Our Engineers are solving complex engineering problems (from low-level system software to cloud computing) that help us innovate our cutting-edge products. Besides our world-class Software Engineering teams, we have many other talented colleagues working in Product Management, Sales, Finance, and HR to name a few. What’s more, we’ve developed these teams from talent across the globe. 

PORTWORX

The Portworx Enterprise Storage Platform is your end-to-end storage and data management solution for all your Kubernetes projects, including container-based CaaS, DBaaS, SaaS, and Disaster Recovery initiatives. Your apps will benefit from container-granular storage, disaster recovery, data security, multi-cloud migrations and more.

Pure Storage Acquired Portworx in October 2020, Creating the Industry's Most Complete Kubernetes Data Services Platform for Cloud Native Applications. This acquisition represents Pure’s largest to date and our deeper expansion into the fast-growing market for multi-cloud data services to support Kubernetes and containers.

Portworx Data Services (PDS), the industry’s first database-as-a-service platform. Pure customers are reinventing their businesses and dominating their industries by building modern applications. These apps run in containers and on Kubernetes. They’re backed by a growing number of SQL, NoSQL, search, streaming, and analytics data services.
PDS provides a production-grade, managed database-as-a-service experience for running these services so developers can focus on using data services, not managing them.

IN THIS ROLE YOU WILL...

Build core of database as a service platform to manage the complete life-cycle of data intensive applications in a Kubernetes cluster. This would include not just basic installation, but day-2 operations like metrics, backups, migrations, autopilot capabilities, etc.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO BRING TO THIS ROLE...

Background in database administration, compute infrastructure, storage infrastructure, and container ecosystems that run on-premise and in the cloud.
Technical expertise with one or more data services including Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Elastic, Kafka, or Cassandra.
Domain expertise in two or more of the following key areas: Kubernetes, OpenShift, DBA experience in a production environment, DBA architecture experience, Storage infrastructure.
Software development experience.
Candidate must have the passion and strong interest in learning new technologies.
Strong can do attitude, focus on innovation and customer centric approach.

BE YOU—CORPORATE CLONES NEED NOT APPLY.

Pure is where you ask big questions, think differently, and make an impact. This is not just a job, but a place where you have a voice and can accelerate your career. We value unique thoughts and celebrate individuality, and with ample opportunity to learn, develop yourself, and expand into different roles, joining Pure is an investment in your career journey.

Through our Pure Equality program, which supports a flourishing field of employee resource groups, we nourish the personal and professional lives of our team members. And our Pure Good Foundation gives back to local and global communities through volunteering and grants.

And because we understand the value of bringing your full and best self to work, we offer a variety of perks to manage a healthy balance, including flexible time off, wellness resources, and company-sponsored team events.