Storage Systems Engineer – Core OS & ONTAP

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

RSUs

Retirement plan

Job summary

NetApp is hiring experienced Systems Software Engineers across multiple NetApp engineering organizations. This pipeline posting targets strong C/C++ systems-level engineers who can contribute to core storage and data management technologies across ONTAP and other NetApp products.

You will work on foundational components of NetApp’s storage stack, including filesystems, storage internals, and distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Proficient in C/C++ for systems-level development.
• Knowledge of data structures, algorithms, memory management, and concurrency.
• Experience with Unix/Linux systems programming.
• Familiarity with filesystems, storage systems, and distributed systems.
• Strong debugging and performance analysis skills (gdb, perf, tracing).
• 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.
• 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

Unix/Linux

Filesystems

Storage systems

Distributed systems

Debugging

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

ONTAP/WAFL

NFS/SMB/NVMe

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

NetApp is hiring experienced Systems Software Engineers across multiple NetApp engineering organizations. This pipeline posting targets strong C/C++ systems-level engineers who can contribute to core storage and data management technologies across ONTAP and other NetApp products.

You will work on foundational components of NetApp’s storage stack, including filesystems, storage internals, and distributed systems.