Performance Engineer (Cloud Data Plane Engineering)
NetApp, Inc.•San Jose, CA
•$147,900 - $220,000
About The Position
Design, develop, analyze, and optimize cloud software and performance capabilities for cloud storage services and distributed systems. In this role you will collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams to model, measure, analyze, and improve the performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency of cloud platforms—ensuring customer and market requirements are met while balancing quality, cost, and time-to-market. The ideal candidate is systems-focused, analytical and creative, and driven to deliver measurable performance improvements at cloud scale.
Requirements
- A minimum of 4 years of experience is required.
- Knowledge of performance analysis, modeling techniques, benchmarking, and workload characterization.
- Understanding of performance tradeoffs when designing for multi-tenant, elastic cloud environments (latency, throughput, cost, and reliability).
- Hands-on experience applying AI/ML techniques to performance engineering
- Understanding of AI/ML workloads and their impact on cloud storage performance.
- Strong foundations in operating systems, data structures, and standard programming practices; systems programming in C is highly desirable.
- Proficiency with scripting and automation (Python, shell; Perl acceptable) and comfort working with notebooks (e.g., Jupyter).
Responsibilities
- Design and execute performance benchmarks/workloads; measure, analyze, interpret, and socialize results to identify improvement opportunities.
- Apply AI-assisted performance engineering techniques and develop tools (e.g., performance analysis, automated regression triage, and ML-based capacity planning) to accelerate bottleneck analysis and guide optimization priorities.
- Evaluate design alternatives and prototype performance enhancements across cloud services and distributed components.
- Collect and analyze customer experience signals and usage patterns; prepare findings and recommendations for engineering and management.
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Retirement or Pension Plans
- Paid Time Off
- various Leave options
- Performance-Based Incentives
- employee stock purchase plan
- restricted stocks (RSU’s)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
