20 days ago
Base Salary
$228k - $339k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical implementation of the StorageGRID S3 data path, metadata storage, and replicated or erasure-coded data flow.
- Lead performance analysis and benchmarking, identify improvements, and deliver performance and scaling enhancements.
- Design for multi-site, cross-grid replication and global or federated namespace behavior across hundreds of nodes and exabytes of capacity.
- Drive cross-cutting data-path initiatives from architecture through implementation, validation, and release readiness.
- Remain hands-on in code, design reviews, debugging, root-cause analysis, and technical standards.
- Lead StorageGRID designs and align architecture across data-path engineering.
- Mentor Senior and Member of Technical Staff engineers on data-path internals, performance optimization, distributed-systems design, and debugging.
- Collaborate with quality engineering, product management, supportability, support, and field teams to translate customer needs into improvements.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in systems, storage, distributed systems, or performance engineering, with a record of technical leadership.
- Strong programming skills in one or more of C/C++, Go, or Python and experience debugging distributed software in Linux-based environments.
- Experience building or owning an object-storage system, S3 implementation, or large-scale distributed storage or database product covering request data paths, placement, replication or erasure coding, consistency, and failure handling.
- Experience with Apache Cassandra or a comparable distributed database at scale.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.
- Preferred experience with S3 protocol semantics including multipart, versioning, and Object Lock/WORM.
- Preferred experience with load balancing, networking, NVMe, SSD, HDD, and x86 hardware.
- Preferred experience with AI-assisted development and observability tooling for analysis, debugging, testing, and documentation.
- The education section states that IC roles typically require a minimum of 15 years of related experience.
Benefits
- The posting describes a comprehensive benefits package that may include health insurance, life insurance, retirement or pension plans, paid time off, various leave options, an employee stock purchase plan, and restricted stock units, subject to regional variations 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.