Staff Software Engineer (C/Kernel/System Programming)

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. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards its maximum potential. As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization's success. This is more than a job—it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.

Success profile

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

Responsibilities

• Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Job category: Software Engineering

• Job ID: 135209-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

As a Senior Engineer, your responsibilities will include developing and maintaining Software defined Storage solutions. You will focus on solving complex problems, developing, testing, automating and collaborating with the Software Engineering team to deploy features in a production environment. Additionally, you will be responsible for designing and implementing managed Cloud Services based on given requirements. We expect you to have excellent coding skills and take a lead role in designing and implementing managed Cloud Services.

Prior experience in Filesystems would be an added advantage, and you should also have the ability to quickly learn existing code and architecture.

Job Requirements

• Lead to deliver features, including participating in the full software development lifecycle.
• Participate in product design, development, verification, troubleshooting, and delivery of a system or major subsystems, including authoring project specifications.
• Excellent Problem solver, proficient coder and a designer.
• Thorough understanding and extensive experience with Block/File technologies having hands-on experience in designing and developing software solutions.
• Proficient with any of the languages C, C++, and good to have Python.
• Strong in Data Structure and algorithms.
• System/Kernel programming, Experience with Filesystems or Networking or file/cloud protocols is a must.
• Experience with ONTAP or similar storage operating systems
• Familiarity with agile software development practices
• Continuously monitor, analyse, and measure system health, availability, and latency using native tooling. Develop and implement steps to improve system and application performance, availability, and reliability.
• Knowledge of infrastructure like hypervisor, Cloud Storage and experience with cloud services including Databases, Caching, Object and Block Storage, Scaling, Monitoring, Load Balancers etc. is added advantage.
• Mentor junior members, participate in interviews, and contribute to building high-performance teams.
• Work on development, bug fixes/updates, spec updates, customer RCAs and automation.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Engage in incident management processes to resolve production issues within agreed SLAs/SLOs.

Education

• B.E/B.Tech or M.S in Computer Science or related technical field

• 12+ years of experience and must be hands-on with coding

• 5+ years in technical leadership positions

• 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.

• 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.

• Our culture

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