NetApp

Performance Engineer (Cloud Data Plane Engineering)

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15 days ago
Durham, NC, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor

Base Salary

$148k - $220k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute performance benchmarks and workloads, then measure, analyze, interpret, and communicate results.
  • Develop AI-assisted performance engineering tools for performance analysis, automated regression triage, and ML-based capacity planning.
  • Evaluate design alternatives and prototype performance enhancements across cloud services and distributed components.
  • Analyze customer experience signals and usage patterns and provide recommendations to engineering and management.
  • Optimize cloud storage and distributed systems for performance, scalability, reliability, and cost-efficiency.

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of professional experience is required.
  • Knowledge of performance analysis, modeling techniques, benchmarking, and workload characterization is required.
  • Understanding of latency, throughput, cost, and reliability tradeoffs in multi-tenant, elastic cloud environments is required.
  • Hands-on experience applying AI/ML techniques to performance engineering and understanding AI/ML workloads are required.
  • Strong foundations in operating systems, data structures, and standard programming practices are required.
  • Systems programming experience in C is highly desirable.
  • Proficiency with Python and shell scripting and automation is required; Perl is acceptable.
  • Familiarity with notebooks such as Jupyter is required.
  • A Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, or PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, or equivalent experience, is required.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits may include health insurance, life insurance, retirement or pension plans, paid time off, leave options, performance-based incentives, an employee stock purchase plan, and restricted stock units, subject to regional variations and local policies.

Tech Stack

CPerlPython

Categories

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About NetApp

10,000+ employees

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.

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