Storage Systems Engineer - C/C++ & Performance

NetApp; Cranberry Township (Butler County); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Retirement Plan

Paid Time Off

Stock Options

Job summary

NetApp is hiring experienced Systems Software Engineers to work on core storage and data management technologies across ONTAP and related products. Roles span teams including ONTAP, WAFL, Replication/HA, Protocols, and Distributed Systems, with opportunities at levels 3–5.

Engineers design, build, and optimize storage stack components and collaborate with hardware and cloud groups globally. Responsibilities include developing features, optimizing throughput and latency, debugging complex issues,

Qualifications

• Strong proficiency in C/C++ for systems-level development.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, memory management, and concurrency.
• Experience with Unix/Linux systems programming.
• Experience with filesystems, storage systems, networking/protocol stacks, distributed systems, high-availability architectures.
• Strong debugging and performance analysis skills (gdb, perf, tracing, profiling tools).
• Ability to write maintainable, well-documented code.
• Effective communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and enhance features within ONTAP and related NetApp storage systems.
• Write high-quality C/C++ code that is efficient, reliable, and maintainable.
• Analyze and improve existing code paths for performance, scalability, and correctness.
• Debug complex issues using system-level tools, logs, tracing, and profiling.
• Collaborate across engineering teams, including filesystem, protocol, cloud, hardware, and QA.
• Participate in design and code reviews, contributing to engineering best practices.
• Investigate performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations.
• Support prototyping, research, and feasibility analysis for new ideas and features.
• Communicate design decisions, technical findings, and progress clearly with peers.
• Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate design, development, testing, and troubleshooting.

Skills

C/C++

Data structures

Algorithms

Unix/Linux

Debugging

Performance analysis

Collaboration

Code reviews

AI tools

Education

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

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

ONTAP

WAFL

NFS/SMB/SAN

NVMe

Cloud platforms

Job description

NetApp is hiring experienced Systems Software Engineers to work on core storage and data management technologies across ONTAP and related products. Roles span teams including ONTAP, WAFL, Replication/HA, Protocols, and Distributed Systems, with opportunities at levels 3–5.

Engineers design, build, and optimize storage stack components and collaborate with hardware and cloud groups globally. Responsibilities include developing features, optimizing throughput and latency, debugging complex issues,