Senior Intelligent Data Infrastructure Engineer

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

Job summary

NetApp is seeking an Intelligent Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, and optimize the core software powering data infrastructure for enterprise and AI workloads. Proficient in C and Python, you will work on OS internals, distributed systems, and AI-native development workflows across on-prem, cloud, and AI environments.

The role focuses on scalable, high-performance infrastructure that manages data, with collaboration across hardware, platform, networking, and cloud 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.
• Strong understanding of operating systems, memory management, multithreading and concurrency, networking fundamentals, and distributed systems.
• Experience developing software on Linux.
• Strong debugging and performance analysis skills.
• Experience with storage systems or cloud infrastructure is a plus.

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 emphasis on scalability, efficiency, and resiliency.
• Build and optimize data movement, replication, protection, and lifecycle management capabilities.
• Design infrastructure to support 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 optimizations.
• Leverage AI agents to improve development, testing, debugging, documentation, and automation.
• Participate in architecture and code reviews and technical design discussions.
• Develop automated testing, observability, and reliability frameworks.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Operating systems

Memory management

Multithreading

Networking

Distributed systems

Performance optimization

Linux

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS/CE

Tools

Kubernetes

Containers

Cloud-native architectures

Job description

NetApp is seeking an Intelligent Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, develop, and optimize the core software powering data infrastructure for enterprise and AI workloads. Proficient in C and Python, you will work on OS internals, distributed systems, and AI-native development workflows across on-prem, cloud, and AI environments.

The role focuses on scalable, high-performance infrastructure that manages data, with collaboration across hardware, platform, networking, and cloud teams.