Software Engineer - Core Systems and Storage Roles (Multiple Individual Contributor Levels)
About The Position
We are hiring experienced Systems Software Engineers across multiple NetApp engineering organizations. This pipeline positing is designed to attract strong C/C++ systems-level engineers who can contribute to core storage and data management technologies across ONTAP and other NetApp products. Candidates will be considered for roles on several teams, including ONTAP, WAFL, Replication/HA, Protocols (NFS/SMB/SAN/NVMe), Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms, and Performance Engineering.Engineers in these roles design, build, and optimize foundational components of NetApp’s storage stack. You will work on real-world problems involving filesystems, storage internals, distributed systems, performance, scalability, reliability, and data integrity. Work may include developing new features, enhancing subsystems, analyzing complex code paths, improving throughput and latency, debugging customer issues, or driving proofs of concept. You will collaborate with senior engineers, product teams, hardware teams, and cloud engineering groups to deliver high-quality software used globally by enterprise customers.This posting can support multiple levels (3, 4, and 5). Team and level placement will be determined during the interview process based on experience, technical depth, and demonstrated capabilities.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency in C/C++ for systems-level development
- Understanding of data structures, algorithms, memory management, and concurrency
- Experience with Unix/Linux systems programming
- Experience with one or more: filesystems, storage systems, networking/protocol stacks, distributed systems, high-availability architectures
- Strong debugging and performance analysis skills (gdb, perf, tracing, profiling tools)
- Ability to write maintainable, well-documented code
- Effective communication and collaboration skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience with ONTAP, WAFL, or similar storage operating systems
- Experience with NFS, SMB, SAN (iSCSI/FC), NVMe/TCP, NVMe-oF
- Experience with replication, clustering, HA, or consistency protocols
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI)
- Exposure to kernel subsystems, VFS, IO schedulers, caching, or media management
- Experience with distributed systems design and large-scale performance tuning
- Knowledge of CI/CD, test automation, and modern development practices
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and enhance features within ONTAP and related NetApp storage systems
- Write high-quality C/C++ code that is efficient, reliable, and maintainable
- Analyze and improve existing code paths for performance, scalability, and correctness
- Debug complex issues using system-level tools, logs, tracing, and profiling
- Collaborate across engineering teams, including filesystem, protocol, cloud, hardware, and QA
- Participate in design and code reviews, contributing to engineering best practices
- Investigate performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations
- Support prototyping, research, and feasibility analysis for new ideas and features
- Communicate design decisions, technical findings, and progress clearly with peers
- Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate design, development, testing, and troubleshooting
Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Retirement or Pension Plans
- Paid Time Off
- various Leave options
- employee stock purchase plan
- restricted stocks (RSU’s)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
