AI-Driven Data Infrastructure Engineer

NetApp, Inc.; San Jose, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement/Pension Plans

Paid Time Off

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Restricted stock units (RSU)

Job summary

NetApp, Inc. seeks an Intelligent Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, and optimize core software powering next‑generation data infrastructure for enterprise and AI workloads.

You will work on scalable, high‑performance infrastructure across on‑prem, cloud, and AI environments, with emphasis on C/C++, Python, and AI‑driven automation. The role requires deep OS and distributed systems knowledge, Linux proficiency, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams to deliver end‑to‑end

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering or related field.
• 12+ years of experience developing systems software, operating systems, storage platforms, or distributed infrastructure.
• Expert-level programming in C/C++, Python.
• Strong understanding of operating systems, memory management, multithreading, networking, distributed systems, and performance optimization.
• Experience developing software on Linux and strong debugging skills.

Responsibilities

• 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 in C/C++, Python with focus on scalability and resiliency.
• Build and optimize data movement, replication, protection, and lifecycle management.
• Design infrastructure supporting AI/ML pipelines, LLM training, inference, and RAG workloads.
• Collaborate with hardware, platform, networking, and cloud teams to deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Optimize system performance through profiling, benchmarking and low-level optimization.
• Leverage AI agents to improve software development, testing, debugging, documentation, and automation.
• Participate in architecture reviews, code reviews and design discussions.
• Develop automated testing, observability, and reliability frameworks.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Distributed systems

Linux

Multithreading

Memory management

Performance optimization

Operating systems

Education

Bachelor's or Master’s degree in CS/CE or related field

Tools

Rust

Go

Kubernetes

Containers

Cloud-native architectures

Job description

NetApp, Inc. seeks an Intelligent Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, and optimize core software powering next‑generation data infrastructure for enterprise and AI workloads.

You will work on scalable, high‑performance infrastructure across on‑prem, cloud, and AI environments, with emphasis on C/C++, Python, and AI‑driven automation. The role requires deep OS and distributed systems knowledge, Linux proficiency, and collaboration with cross‑functional teams to deliver end‑to‑end