24 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.
- Drive architecture and technical direction for major subsystems within software-defined storage, virtualization infrastructure, and distributed cloud platforms.
- Architect and optimize storage and networking data paths for performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
- Provide technical leadership for KVM/QEMU, hypervisor integrations, virtual networking, storage virtualization, and infrastructure orchestration.
- Lead resolution of complex technical challenges involving distributed systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise storage.
- Influence technical direction through architecture reviews, design leadership, technical mentoring, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Coordinate execution across engineering teams, partner organizations, and multiple technical domains.
- 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.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems architecture, scalability, fault tolerance, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
- 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.
- Preferred qualifications include enterprise-scale storage operating system experience such as ONTAP, infrastructure modernization experience, open-source systems contributions, recognized technical expertise, and advanced cloud certifications or equivalent expertise.
- 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.
- Benefits vary by country and region and are subject to local laws, regulations, and company 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.