3 days ago
Base Salary
$196k - $293k/yr
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and development of scalable, resilient, high-performance infrastructure components across storage, networking, virtualization, and Linux systems layers.
- Drive architecture and technical direction for software-defined storage, virtualization infrastructure, and distributed cloud-platform subsystems.
- Coordinate execution across multiple technical domains, products, teams, stakeholders, and partner organizations.
- Architect and optimize storage and networking data paths for cloud-scale performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Provide technical leadership for KVM/QEMU, hypervisor integrations, virtual networking, storage virtualization, and infrastructure orchestration.
- Lead complex technical problem resolution and drive engineering excellence through design practices, observability, scalability, reliability, automation, and operational readiness.
- Influence technical direction through architecture reviews, mentoring, design leadership, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, storage, and virtualization.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in systems software engineering, distributed infrastructure platforms, virtualization, storage systems, or cloud infrastructure development.
- Expert-level C/C++ programming skills and strong proficiency in Python.
- Deep expertise in Linux operating-system internals, kernel technologies, systems architecture, concurrency, memory management, and performance engineering.
- Significant experience designing and building distributed storage systems, software-defined infrastructure platforms, or cloud-native infrastructure services.
- Deep expertise with KVM/QEMU, virtio, hypervisors, virtual storage, and virtual networking technologies.
- Strong experience with storage and networking subsystems, kernel development, or device-driver development.
- Deep understanding of distributed-systems architecture, scalability, fault tolerance, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
- Strong operational expertise with AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
- Proven ability to lead large cross-functional technical initiatives and influence engineering outcomes across organizations.
- Exceptional debugging, systems analysis, and performance-optimization capabilities.
- Strong communication, technical leadership, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Experience architecting enterprise-scale storage operating systems such as ONTAP or similar platforms is preferred.
- Experience driving large-scale infrastructure modernization or platform-transformation initiatives is preferred.
- Open-source systems-software, kernel, virtualization, storage, or cloud-infrastructure contributions are preferred.
- Advanced cloud certifications or equivalent industry-recognized expertise are preferred.
- A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or a similar field is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package that may include health insurance, life insurance, retirement or pension plans, paid time off, leave options, performance-based incentives, employee stock purchase plans, and restricted stock units, subject to regional variation and local policies.
About NetApp
NetApp builds data storage and data management software and hardware for enterprises, including ONTAP-powered all-flash arrays and hybrid cloud services that integrate with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It sells systems and subscriptions that support backup, disaster recovery, databases, and container/Kubernetes workloads. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Jose, California, NetApp is a public company listed on NASDAQ.