Mid/Senior Software Engineer

NetApp; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully paid private health care

Wellness days off

Phone usage reimbursement

Gym membership

Volunteer days

Charity donation

12 weeks parental leave

Job summary

NetApp Instaclustr in Australia is seeking a collaborative Mid/Senior Software Engineer to join our development team. You’ll work on open-source platforms, provisioning infrastructure, and running scalable distributed applications.

You will own the full lifecycle, mentor teammates, and collaborate with product managers while applying DevOps practices in a 24x7 global environment. The role offers hybrid work from Canberra or Melbourne and opportunities to impact customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• Tertiary qualifications in software engineering or computer science.
• 5-10 years of commercial software engineering experience.
• Experience delivering complex technical solutions.
• Proficiency in Java, SQL, and at least one other modern programming language.
• Strong communication and collaborative mindset.
• Curious mindset with customer impact focus.
• Willingness to learn and grow engineering skills.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and enhance our open-source application platform, handling provisioning, deployment, and production reliability.
• Take end-to-end ownership of the development lifecycle from requirements to production.
• Lead the design and implementation of complex development initiatives.
• Mentor junior engineers within the team.
• Collaborate with other teams, operations, and product managers to solve problems.
• Apply DevOps best practices in a global 24x7 environment.

Skills

Java

SQL

Programming languages

Communication

Collaboration

Curiosity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering or Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Debian

Job description

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

Are you passionate about open-source technologies or solving distributed computing problems at scale? Do you love learning and working with a diverse range of technologies and people?

We’re looking for a collaborative and curious Mid/Senior Software Engineer to join our development team at NetApp Instaclustr (www.instaclustr.com).

NetApp Instaclustr Our mission at NetApp Instaclustr (www.instaclustr.com) is to make it easy for customers around the globe to run powerful open-source applications at scale - like Cassandra, Kafka, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Cadence, and ClickHouse, across both on-premises data-centres and in the cloud. The NetApp Instaclustr development team is responsible for building, maintaining and operating the platform that allows us to provision and reliably keep thousands of distributed application servers running worldwide.

What You Will Do

• Work within a development team of 3-8 engineers, to build, maintain, and enhance our open-source application platform, which takes care of the whole lifecycle: provisioning infrastructure, installing applications and, most importantly, keeping the applications running reliably in production.
• Take end-to-end ownership of the whole development lifecycle, including requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing and deployment through to our production environments.
• Lead the design and implementation of the more complex development initiatives
• Mentor junior engineers within your team, assisting with developing their skills
• Collaborate with other development teams, operations teams and product managers to solve complex problems.
• Apply DevOps best practices as part of a global team that operates 24x7.

Your Skills And Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in software engineering or computer science.
• 5-10 years of commercial experience regularly delivering quality software and overcoming technical challenges.
• Demonstrated experience delivering complex technical solutions.
• Proficiency in Java, SQL and at least one other modern programming language - and openness to learning more.
• Strong communication skills and a humble and collaborative nature - essential for working harmoniously with multiple teams.
• A curious mindset with a keen interest in how your work will positively impact customers.
• Eagerness to tackle new challenges and continuously grow you and your team’s software engineering skills.

What Makes This Role Exciting

• Regular team rotations to explore different technologies and aspects of our systems, ensuring you never stop learning.
• Working with a wide range of technologies and tools, such as: Java, SQL, Python, Typescript, Rust, Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Debian, and more
• Working with major cloud providers.
• Our systems run on AWS, Azure and GCP
• A modern development environment running on the latest MacBook Pros
• Workplace flexibility and great work-life balance
• A fantastic team environment Opportunities to learn from incredibly talented people

Generous other benefits, including:

• Fully paid private health care with Medibank
• Additional wellness days off
• Phone usage reimbursement
• Gym Membership
• Subsidy 5 volunteer days per year to give back to the community
• Donate employer funds to a charity of your choice
• 12 weeks parental leave for primary carers

Practical Details

• Must have the right to work in Australia.
• Must be able to work from our Canberra or Melbourne office at least 3-4 days a week.

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.

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.