Systems Software Engineer — Storage & Performance (Hybrid)

NetApp; Boulder (CO); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working environment

Job summary

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

Engineers design, build, and optimize foundational components of NetApp’s storage stack, collaborating with senior engineers, product teams, hardware teams, and cloud engineering groups to deliver

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field.
• Equivalent practical experience considered.
• Strong debugging and performance analysis 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.

Skills

C/C++ systems-level development

Data structures & algorithms

Unix/Linux systems programming

Filesystems and storage systems

Debugging & performance analysis

Maintainable code & documentation

Effective communication & teamwork

Education

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

Equivalent practical experience

Tools

gdb

perf

Job description

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

Engineers design, build, and optimize foundational components of NetApp’s storage stack, collaborating with senior engineers, product teams, hardware teams, and cloud engineering groups to deliver