Staff Software Engineer (C/Kernel/System Programming)

NetApp; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

NetApp in Bengaluru, India seeks a Senior Engineer to develop and maintain Software Defined Storage solutions and managed Cloud Services. You will lead feature delivery, design and implement subsystems, and mentor teammates. Strong coding in C/C++, with Python is a plus, and knowledge of filesystems or cloud protocols is required.

Hybrid work setup; opportunity to work on performance, scalability, and reliability across storage platforms and cloud integrations.

Qualifications

• Lead to deliver features across full software lifecycle.
• Participate in product design, development, verification and delivery of major subsystems.
• Excellent problem solver and proficient coder with strong design skills.
• Experience with block/file technologies and cloud storage concepts.

Responsibilities

• 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 of block/file technologies with hands-on software development experience.
• Proficient in C/C++ and Python is a plus.
• Strong data structures and algorithms foundations.
• System/kernel programming and familiarity with filesystems, networking or file/cloud protocols.
• Experience with storage OS like ONTAP or similar.
• Familiarity with agile software development practices.
• Monitor and improve system health, performance, reliability using native tooling.
• Knowledge of hypervisors, cloud storage, and cloud services including databases, caching, object and block storage, scaling, monitoring, load balancers is a plus.
• Mentor juniors, participate in interviews, and help build high-performance teams.
• Work on development, bug fixes, updates, RCAs and automation.
• Strong oral and written communication.
• Engage in incident management to resolve production issues within SLAs/SLOs.

Skills

C

C++

Python

Data structures

Kernel programming

Education

BE/B.Tech or MS in CS

12+ years experience

5+ years technical leadership

Tools

ONTAP

Job description

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

We are all about helping customers turn challenges into business opportunity. It starts with bringing new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively to run better - but also to innovate. We tailor our approach to the customer's unique needs with a combination of fresh thinking and proven approaches.

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.

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.