Senior AI-Driven Data Infrastructure Engineer

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Retirement or Pension Plans

Paid Time Off

Performance-Based Incentives

Employee stock purchase plan

Restricted stocks (RSU’s)

Job summary

NetApp is seeking an Intelligent Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, and optimize the core software powering next-generation data infrastructure for enterprise and AI workloads.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in systems programming using C, a strong understanding of operating system internals, distributed systems, and data infrastructure, and is familiar with modern AI agents and AI-native development workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 12+ years of experience developing systems software, OS, storage platforms, or distributed infrastructure.
• Expert-level programming in C/C++ and Python; strong Linux development background.
• Deep understanding of OS internals, memory management, multithreading, networking, and distributed systems.
• Experience developing software on Linux and strong debugging/performance analysis skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop core infrastructure software for intelligent data platforms.
• Develop high‑performance software in C, C++, and Python with emphasis on scalability and resiliency.
• Build and optimize data movement, replication, and lifecycle management.
• Design infrastructure to support AI/ML pipelines and LLM workloads.
• Collaborate with hardware, platform, networking, and cloud teams to deliver end‑to‑end solutions.
• Optimize system performance through profiling and low‑level optimization.
• Leverage AI agents to improve development, testing, and automation.
• Participate in architecture/code reviews and design discussions.
• Develop automated testing, observability, and reliability frameworks.

Skills

C/C++ programming

Python programming

Linux development

OS concepts

Distributed systems

Multithreading

Performance optimization

AI/ML pipelines familiarity

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

Go

Rust

Cloud-native architectures

Job description

NetApp is seeking an Intelligent Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, and optimize the core software powering next-generation data infrastructure for enterprise and AI workloads.

The ideal candidate has deep expertise in systems programming using C, a strong understanding of operating system internals, distributed systems, and data infrastructure, and is familiar with modern AI agents and AI-native development workflows.