# Principal Systems Software Engineer

Job Summary NetApp is building the next generation of intelligent data infrastructure to help organizations manage, protect, move, and unlock the value of their data across on-premises, hybrid-cloud, and AI environments. We are seeking Senior, Principal and Distinguished Engineers and Technical Leaders to help architect, design, and build technologies that will evolve ONTAP for the AI era. You will solve complex systems challenges across distributed storage, file systems, data protection, drive/node failure resilience, performance, storage efficiency, AI data infrastructure, virtualization, and hardware. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for engineers with deep expertise in one or more systems domains and the ability to solve problems across technical boundaries. You will work with engineering teams across ONTAP, WAFL, RAID, Storage, Platform, Performance, and Hardware to develop scalable, resilient, and high-performance solutions. We are hiring across multiple Teams. These positions may be hired at the MTS5 or MTS6 level based on experience, technical depth, scope, and demonstrated impact. What You'll Do Architect and develop next-generation storage and data infrastruct

- **Id**: 4002236
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/netapp-principal-systems-software-engineer>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Jose, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T19:47:32Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T04:14:26Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5607
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Life insurance, Retirement plans
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Enterprise Storage Systems, Digital Storage

## Company

- **Id**: 58700
- **Name**: NetApp
- **Domain**: netapp.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/netapp>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Eightfold

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 89
- **Open postings**: 28
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.429
- **Repost share**: 0.036
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 53
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 227800
- **Max**: 338800
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 338800

## Technologies

- **C++** — Optional: no
- **FreeBSD** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Unix** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 12
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T04:14:26Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 164 · green card filings: 52; Filings 12m: 164

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 53
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T05:40:53Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 338800
- **Is top pay**: yes

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