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.

Job Summary

NetApp is looking for a Senior Software Developers to help extend our leadership in Object Storage. You will design and build features that solve complex customer problems especially around AI/ML data lakes while improving the reliability, performance, and maintainability of our platform. This role blends new development with refactoring and operational excellence: writing production-grade code, improving existing systems, and partnering with Product management and Customer Support to turn customer pain points into durable solutions. As a Lead developer working on StorageGRID you will be responsible for design and development for control plane, design for secure, robust, reliable and durable product driving customer adoption and customer success. In addition, being part of a diverse and multi-site team, you have opportunities to build teams, partner with QA and cross-site teams to drive success.

Job Requirements

Key Responsibilities 

Design and architect major control plane features for Storage products
Implement, unit test, debug, verify production systems and features 
Improve performance, reliability, availability and serviceability 
Mentor, influence and collaborate with peer and junior engineers 
Support inter-dependent development and testing activities 
Practice and influence AI-native software development lifecycle

Job Requirements 

C++; required additionally: Go, Ruby, Python or Java 
OO design, network programming, HTTP, AWS S3 and file systems 
Cassandra/CQL/NoSQL or SQL databases 
Large-scale distributed systems, HPC 
Linux and containers 
AI-native engineering, Agile, TDD, and continuous integration

Education

A minimum of 8 years of experience is required
A Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or a Master's Degree; or equivalent experience is required.

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.

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