AI-Driven Cloud Performance Engineer

NetApp; San Jose (CA); Hybrid; USD 148,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

NetApp seeks a cloud-performance engineer to design, develop, analyze, and optimize performance for cloud storage services and distributed systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to model, measure, and improve scalability, cost-efficiency, and quality for cloud platforms at scale.

The ideal candidate is systems-focused, analytical, and creative, with hands-on AI/ML in performance engineering, strong OS fundamentals, and scripting skills in Python or shells; knowledge of C is a

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of experience.
• Knowledge of performance analysis, modeling techniques, benchmarking, and workload characterization.
• Understanding of performance tradeoffs in multi-tenant, elastic cloud environments (latency, throughput, cost, reliability).
• Hands-on AI/ML techniques applied to performance engineering; AI/ML workloads impact on cloud storage performance.
• Strong foundations in operating systems, data structures, and standard programming practices; systems programming in C is highly desirable.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (Python, shell; Perl acceptable) and comfort working with notebooks (e.g., Jupyter).

Responsibilities

• Design and execute performance benchmarks/workloads; measure, analyze, interpret, and socialize results to identify improvement opportunities.
• Apply AI-assisted performance engineering techniques and develop tools to accelerate bottleneck analysis and guide optimization.
• Evaluate design alternatives and prototype performance enhancements across cloud services and distributed components.
• Collect and analyze customer experience signals and usage patterns; prepare findings and recommendations for engineering and management.

Skills

Performance analysis

Modeling techniques

Benchmarking

Workload characterization

AI/ML techniques

C programming

Python

Shell scripting

Jupyter notebooks

Perl

Education

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science

Job description

NetApp seeks a cloud-performance engineer to design, develop, analyze, and optimize performance for cloud storage services and distributed systems. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to model, measure, and improve scalability, cost-efficiency, and quality for cloud platforms at scale.

The ideal candidate is systems-focused, analytical, and creative, with hands-on AI/ML in performance engineering, strong OS fundamentals, and scripting skills in Python or shells; knowledge of C is a