Senior Backend Engineer (Golang and Kubernetes)

Overview

At NetApp, our High Achievement Principles shape how we work: we innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel as a team. We have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. That’s because we bring new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively in the most efficient possible way. As an Engineer with NetApp, 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.

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

Responsibilities

• Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Job category: Engineering

• Job ID: 137103-en_US

• Own Every Moment at NetApp

• 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.

• Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

From the newest ideas in cluster computing to the latest web framework, NetApp software products embrace innovation to deliver compelling solutions to our business. NetApp is looking for an experienced Software Engineer to join our NetApp Console software and application development team. NetApp Console is our unified console and API namespace that offers a seamless experience across all our storage and data solutions. It is a unified control plane that provides global visibility and operational simplicity of storage and data services across on-premises and cloud environments. This is a great opportunity to work on a high-powered team delivering an industry changing product within an extremely high growth sector of the tech industry.

This position requires a technically deep individual who is creative, team-oriented and driven to deliver results, and who can mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams

Job Requirements

• Roles & Responsibilities
• Design and develop scalable, highly available distributed systems and microservices.
• Build cloud-native solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Develop and troubleshoot production-grade applications using Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux.
• ]Work with VMware vSphere or equivalent virtualization platforms.
• Lead technical design discussions, code reviews, and key architecture decisions.]
• Mentor engineers and collaborate with Product, QA, and SRE teams
• 10+ years of hands-on software development experience.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems, microservices, system design, and cloud-native architecture.
• Strong programming experience in Go, Java/Scala, or Node.js/TypeScript.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and Linux.
• Strong experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Experience with VMware vSphere or similar virtualization platforms.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs, scalability, high availability, and performance.
• Storage technologies such as ONTAP, file/block/object storage, or Trident.
• Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka/NATS, PostgreSQL/MongoDB.
• Exposure to GPU/AI cloud infrastructure.

Education

• A minimum of 8+ years of software engineering experience is required. 8 to 12 years of experience is preferred.

• A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science or Information Technology, or a Master Degree, or a PhD; or equivalent experience is required.

• Demonstrated track record of leading the design and delivery of multiple complex, large-scale technical projects end to end.

• Strong understanding of computer architecture, distributed systems, data structures, algorithms and software engineering best practices.

• At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.

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.

• Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

• At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

• 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.

• Our culture

• We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

• If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.

• Submitting an Application

• To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.

• AI Disclosure

• For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.

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• Our values

• Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

Benefits

• Volunteer time off

• 40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

• Well-being

• Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

• Time away

• Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.

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