Software Engineer

NetApp, Inc.

11d•$170,000 - $253,000

About The Position

NetApp is seeking a Software Engineer 4 to join their Engineering team. The role involves designing, building, and shipping high-quality software for products and platforms, taking ownership of features from architecture and implementation through testing, deployment, and operation. The engineer will work on distributed, cloud-native systems where performance, reliability, and security are critical. Collaboration with software engineers, quality engineering, SRE, security, and product teams is expected to deliver well-designed, well-tested features and to continuously improve codebase quality and engineering practices. As a senior technical contributor, the role includes driving design decisions, setting engineering standards, mentoring other engineers, and influencing technical direction across multiple teams. The position may also involve contributing to build, release, and automation tooling when the team requires it.

Requirements

8–12 years of professional software engineering experience, with a track record of delivering production systems.
Strong programming skills in one or more of Go, Python, Java, or C/C++.
Experience building cloud-native and distributed systems, including containers (Docker) and Kubernetes.
Solid grounding in software design, data structures, APIs, and testing strategies, including unit, integration, and automated testing.
Experience with Git workflows, including branching and merge strategies, pull request workflows, and code review best practices.
Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, mentor engineers, and influence technical direction.
Willingness to work on CI/CD and automation when the team’s needs require it.

Nice To Haves

Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
Scripting and automation in Bash, Groovy, or PowerShell.
Experience with Helm, infrastructure as code, or DevSecOps practices.
Experience with observability, performance tuning, or large-scale storage and data systems.

Responsibilities

Design, develop, test, and deliver features and services for our products and platform.
Own technical designs end to end, from architecture and implementation through deployment and operations.
Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code, and set standards through code reviews and design discussions.
Improve the performance, scalability, reliability, and security of our systems.
Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and influence direction across multiple teams.
Mentor engineers and help grow engineering capability on the team.
Contribute to CI/CD pipelines, build and release automation, and developer tooling as needed, helping reduce manual work and speed up delivery.