Performance Engineer (Cloud Data Plane Engineering) Job Details | NetApp, Inc.

NetApp is hiring a Performance Engineer to design, develop, analyze, and optimize cloud software and performance capabilities for cloud storage services and distributed systems. The role focuses on improving cloud platform performance, scalability, and cost-efficiency through benchmarking, AI-assisted performance engineering, prototyping, and analysis of customer usage signals.

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

Skills

• 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
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (Python, shell; Perl acceptable) and comfort working with notebooks (e.g., Jupyter)
• A Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, or PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science; or equivalent experience is required
• Systems programming in C is highly desirable

Benefits

• The comprehensive benefits package may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s); all offerings are subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies.

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