Senior Software Engineer

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 drive results, innovate to elevate, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer – Cloud Infrastructure, you will help build, operate, and scale mission-critical cloud services that support NetApp’s SaaS and IaaS offerings. You will work across the full service lifecycle—from design and deployment through production operations and continuous improvement—at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, and operations.

You will improve reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency through automation, observability, and strong engineering practices. This role supports cloud-native services built on microservices and Kubernetes-based architectures and partners closely with NetApp teams and cloud providers including Microsoft Azure.

This is a high-impact opportunity for an engineer who enjoys solving distributed-systems challenges, eliminating operational toil, and improving the resilience, performance, and security of cloud services at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build automation to improve operational efficiency and reduce risk.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and deployment velocity for cloud services.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues across the full stack.
• Lead incident response and root cause analysis for critical service events.
• Monitor and optimize service health, availability, latency, and performance.
• Operate Kubernetes- and container-based cloud infrastructure.
• Provide advanced tier 2/3 support for cloud data services.
• Strengthen security posture and resolve complex security issues.
• Create and maintain runbooks and operational documentation.
• Influence architecture and implementation decisions through production insight.

Job Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship or Permenet Residence with Green Card status mandatory.
• 8\+ years of experience in software, infrastructure, or site reliability engineering.
• Full-Stack Engineer Experience Required.
• Strong coding / scripting skills in Python, Go, or PowerShell.
• Deep experience with Linux, Kubernetes, containers, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud.
• Experience using Artificial Intelligence to accelerate automation development and optimize processes. Ability to derive actionable business intelligence from structured and unstructured logs, events, traces, and metrics using AI and MCP-enabled agentic workflows.
• Strong understanding of DevOps / SRE practices.
• Excellent troubleshooting skills across infrastructure and application layers.

Education

Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, a master’s degree; or equivalent experience is required.

Compensation Data

The target salary range for this position is $171,000 - $255,000\. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.

Compensation:

The target salary range for this position is 196,350 - 292,600 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.

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

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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.