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Software Engineer

NetApp, Inc.
Posted 2 days ago, valid for 20 days
Location

Seven Trees, CA, US

Salary

Competitive

Contract type

Full Time

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  • We are looking for an Intelligent Data Infrastructure Engineer with 12+ years of experience to design and optimize software for enterprise and AI workloads.
  • The ideal candidate should have expertise in systems programming using C, along with a strong understanding of operating systems, distributed systems, and data infrastructure.
  • Key responsibilities include developing core infrastructure software, optimizing data management capabilities, and supporting AI/ML pipelines.
  • Candidates should possess a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field and have expert-level programming skills in C/C++ and Python.
  • The position offers a competitive salary, commensurate with experience, and requires strong debugging and performance analysis skills.

Job Summary

We are seeking anĀ Intelligent Data Infrastructure EngineerĀ to design, develop, and optimize the core software that powers next-generation data infrastructure for enterprise and AI workloads. The ideal candidate has deep expertise in systems programming usingĀ C, a strong understanding of operating system internals, distributed systems, and data infrastructure, and is familiar with modernĀ AI agentsĀ and AI-native development workflows.

This role focuses on building scalable, high-performance infrastructure that manages, protects, and accelerates data across on-premises, cloud, and AI environments.

Key Responsibilities

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  • Design and develop core infrastructure software for intelligent data platforms, including storage, data management, caching, metadata services, and distributed systems.
  • Develop high-performance, reliable software inĀ C, C++, Python with an emphasis on scalability, efficiency, and resiliency.
  • Build and optimize data movement, replication, protection, and lifecycle management capabilities.
  • Design infrastructure that supports AI/ML pipelines, large language model (LLM) training, inference, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) workloads.
  • Collaborate with hardware, platform, networking, and cloud engineering teams to deliver end-to-end infrastructure solutions.
  • Optimize system performance through profiling, benchmarking, and low-level software optimization.
  • Leverage modern AI agents to improve software development, testing, debugging, documentation, and operational automation.
  • Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews, and technical design discussions.
  • Develop automated testing, observability, and reliability frameworks.

Skills and Qualifications

Required Skills

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • 12+ years of experience developing systems software, operating systems, storage platforms, or distributed infrastructure.
  • Expert-level programming skills inĀ C/C++, Python
  • Strong understanding of:
    • Operating systems
    • Memory management
    • Multithreading and concurrency
    • Networking fundamentals
    • Distributed systems
    • Performance optimization
  • Experience developing software on Linux.
  • Strong debugging and performance analysis skills.

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Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience with storage systems, file systems, object storage, distributed data platforms, or cloud infrastructure.
  • Knowledge of AI infrastructure and data pipelines supporting GPU clusters and large-scale AI workloads.
  • Experience with Ā Rust, Go.
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes, containers, and cloud-native architectures.
  • Experience using AI coding assistants and autonomous AI agents (such as GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, Claude Code, or similar tools) to accelerate software development, testing, and debugging.

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Desired Skills

  • Strong systems thinking and software architecture skills.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Passion for building high-performance infrastructure software.
  • Effective communication and collaboration skills.
  • Ability to work across cross-functional engineering teams.



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