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This role ensures high availability, performance, and data protection across mission-critical ... Understanding of RAID, Snapshots, Replication SAN/NAS architecture LUN provisioning, host mapping ...

... architecture reviews, security reviews, capacity planning, and performance trend analysis. • ... Ensure host connectivity and configuration to Hybrid and Native Cloud Storage solutions • Monitor ...

Systems Performance Architect

Cupertino, CA · On-site

$206K/yr

The System Performance Architecture team is responsible for all aspects of performance spanning hardware (CPU, GPU, DRAM, storage), software (OS, drivers, applications), and other system ...

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Key Responsibilities * Design, architect, implement, and support enterprise NetApp storage ... Perform advanced performance analysis and troubleshooting across storage, networking ...

Support the SEC ISS contract by designing, implementing, and operating secure, scalable cloud and ... Advanced skills in storage performance tuning, capacity planning, risk assessment, and disaster ...

This role ensures high availability, performance, and data protection across mission-critical ... architecture LUN provisioning, host mapping, volume management Storage tiering and thin ...

... Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Kubernetes Engine. * Translate business and technical ... Monitor and optimize cloud resource usage for performance and cost-efficiency. * Implement ...

... Cloud Storage, Pub/Sub, Cloud SQL, and Kubernetes Engine. * Translate business and technical ... Monitor and optimize cloud resource usage for performance and cost-efficiency. * Implement ...

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Performance Engineer (Cloud Data Plane Engineering)

San Jose, CA • On-site

NetApp
IT Services • 10K+ employees

Full-time

Medical, Life, Retirement, PTO

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Company rating: 9.4 out of 10

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Job description

Job Summary

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.

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. 
Job 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 engineeringUnderstanding 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). 
Education
  • A Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, or PhD Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science; or equivalent experience is required. 

Compensation:
The target salary range for this position is 147,900 - 220,000 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This 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), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process. 


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The NetApp portfolio of leading data, application, and storage solutions helps organizations manage applications and data everywhere across hybrid multicloud environments. Our 30 years of innovation have made us the proven leader in all-flash storage. We have the only enterprise-grade storage OS available natively on the world’s biggest public clouds. Our data services offer the best security and protection in the industry. We have CloudOps services that will revolutionize how you work in the cloud. And that’s just scratching the surface. In a world of hybrid multicloud complexity, we envision a better IT experience—an evolved cloud state where on-premises and cloud environments are united as one, always delivering simplicity, security, savings, and sustainability. To get you there, we build solutions that drive faster innovation wherever your data and applications live, with unified management and AI-driven optimization. No walled gardens. No lock-in. You get the freedom to do what’s best for your business today and the flexibility to adapt to whatever tomorrow throws at you.

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Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Sunnyvale, CA, US