Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer for AI & Multicloud

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

NetApp seeks an Intelligent Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, and optimize core software powering next‑generation data infrastructure for enterprise and AI workloads. Deep expertise in C systems programming, OS internals, distributed systems, and AI-enabled workflows is required.

The role focuses on scalable, high‑performance infrastructure that manages, protects, and accelerates data across on‑premises, cloud, and AI environments, with collaboration across cross‑functional teams.

Qualifications

• 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 in C/C++, Python

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 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

C/C++

Python

Linux development

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Multithreading

Memory management

Networking fundamentals

Debugging and profiling

Systems thinking

Education

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

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

GitHub Copilot / AI coding assistants

Job description

NetApp seeks an Intelligent Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, and optimize core software powering next‑generation data infrastructure for enterprise and AI workloads. Deep expertise in C systems programming, OS internals, distributed systems, and AI-enabled workflows is required.

The role focuses on scalable, high‑performance infrastructure that manages, protects, and accelerates data across on‑premises, cloud, and AI environments, with collaboration across cross‑functional teams.