Senior Software Engineer (Hardware, Networking & Storage)

About the Position

At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure-delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Join us as a Senior Software Engineer specializing in hardware, networking, and storage. You'll have the opportunity to work with modern cloud and container orchestration technologies in a production setting. You’ll play an important role in scaling systems sustainably through automation and evolving them by pushing for changes to improve reliability and velocity.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year technical roadmap for on-prem platform architecture, balancing performance, reliability, cost, and manufacturability.
• Make and defend high-stakes architectural trade-offs with org-wide impact, and be accountable for their long-term consequences.
• Identify emerging technologies (hardware, protocols, AI-driven tooling) worth betting on, and build the case to adopt them org-wide.
• Act as a recognized leader in applying AI/GenAI across engineering, setting the strategy, standards, and best practices for how the org adopts them.
• Drive architecture decisions for LLM/GenAI-powered systems: RAG pipelines, agentic automation, model evaluation frameworks, and prompt/response reliability at scale.
• Evangelize and mentor other engineers and lead on applied AI running reviews, setting guardrails (accuracy, cost, data privacy), and identifying where AI should and shouldn't be used.
• Represent the org's AI engineering direction to senior leadership and, where relevant, external technical communities.
• Authoritative, protocol-level expertise across networking, capable of driving architecture decisions and resolving the org's hardest network-layer issues.
• Deep, authoritative command of OS internals sets direction on kernel/OS architecture decisions and is the escalation point for the hardest root-cause investigations.
• Own architectural decisions across storage and hardware interfaces, including performance tuning, failure analysis, and next-generation platform design.
• Set the automation strategy and standards for the broader team determining what should be automated, how, and to what reliability bar.
• Maintain expert, hands-on fluency in Python, C, and C++, using it to prototype and validate architectural decisions directly, not only to review them.
• Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, shaping how they grow technically and how they approach ambiguous problems.
• Run and set the bar for architecture reviews across multiple teams, not just design/code review within one.
• Align software, firmware, hardware, and manufacturing organizations around shared technical direction, resolving cross-org technical disagreements.
• Represent the company's technical position in customer escalations, partner discussions, or industry forums as needed.
• Own the technical narrative for the platform architecture docs, technical roadmaps, and strategic planning inputs to leadership.

Requirements

• Analytical
• Adaptable
• Communicator
• Detail-oriented
• Quick-thinking
• Problem solver

Core Skills

• AI/GenAI
• Networking
• Storage
• OS internals
• Python
• C
• C++

We Offer

• Competitive salary
• Hybrid working environment
• Professional development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources

About the Company

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Apply now to join our innovative team and help shape the future of data infrastructure.