Senior Performance Software Engineer
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Job Location:
Waltham, MA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
3 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Job Summary
As a Senior Performance Software Engineer in the Cloud Storage and Services organization you will own the end-to-end performance strategy measurement and optimization of next-generation storage products. This role involves deep analysis of I/O paths scalability modeling and tuning across hardware and software layers. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical thinking with low-level system expertise to ensure world-class performance across cloud storage products.
Youll be partnering with our product and engineering leaders in the cloud storage organization gathering performance requirements planning designing and providing performance improvements. Youll be responsible for understanding system bottlenecks reviewing product design and implementation and making critical technical decisions to improve performance.
You are expected to have a strong technical point of view work with our internal and external partners and earn their trust with empathy. Your ability to communicate clearly with the leaders of the companies and use data to defend your decisions will be crucial for this role.
Job Requirements
- Improve performance for key NetApp products and solutions in the cloud through design execute analyze and implementation.
- Recreate customer environments and workloads to benchmark and improve real-world performance on NetApp cloud products.
- Integrate automated regression checks into CI/CD pipelines to ensure sustained performance quality.
- Develop intelligent solutions to automate performance analysis characterization bottleneck identification and improvement implementation.
- Mentor junior engineers and review their analysis for technical accuracy.
- Understand NetApps existing systems their interdependencies and limitations.
- Influence multiple internal teams and external partners without authority and with strong empathy. (This is an IC role)
Qualifications
- Masters or bachelors degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience.
- 8 years of experience in software/systems/performance engineering and analysis.
- 5 years of experience in the storage domain.
- 5 years of experience working on embedded SW development with Linux.
- 5 years of hands-on experience in developing code in C/C.
- Experience working on at least one of the major cloud service providers.
- Deep understanding of storage architectures (block file object) RAID caching SSD internals and storage protocols.
- Proven record of improving performance of embedded systems. Designing performance measurements understanding system bottlenecks and implementing changes.
- Strong proficiency with Linux performance tools
- Proven ability to interpret low-level metrics diagnose complex issues and drive improvements across cross-functional teams.
- Proactive and self-driven with strong technical judgment and influential skills.
- Expertise to provide both architectural guidance and detailed technical direction.
- Excellent communication and writing skills with the ability to effectively engage with customers stakeholders and the engineering community.
Compensation:
The target salary range for this position is 159800 - 237600 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidates 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 (PTO) various Leave options Performance-Based Incentives employee stock purchase plan and/or restricted stocks (RSUs) 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- JProfiler
- Splunk
- Performance Testing
- Fiddler
- Apache
- HP Performance Center
- LoadRunner
- New Relic
- Scalability
- J2EE
- Java
- Scripting
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