Senior Cloud & Software-Defined Storage Engineer — Hybrid

NetApp, Inc.; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 253,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Retirement or Pension Plans

Paid Time Off

various Leave options

employee stock purchase plan

restricted stocks (RSU’s)

Job summary

Join NetApp’s Cloud Platforms organization and help build cloud-native infrastructure, software-defined storage, and virtualization platforms for enterprise-scale data management across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Senior SDE with deep Linux, distributed storage, virtualization, and cloud experience will contribute across multiple technical areas and drive execution independently.

You will collaborate with cloud providers and engineering teams to design scalable, secure, and high-performance

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in systems software engineering, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or storage platform development.
• Strong programming expertise in C/C++ and Python.
• Deep understanding of operating systems internals, concurrency, memory management, performance optimization, and systems-level debugging.
• Hands-on experience with software-defined storage systems, distributed storage platforms, or enterprise infrastructure software.
• Strong experience with virtualization technologies including KVM/QEMU, libvirt, virtio, and virtualized networking/storage infrastructure.
• Experience developing or troubleshooting storage and networking subsystems, kernel modules, or device drivers.
• Strong knowledge of storage technologies and protocols such as NVMe, iSCSI, NFS, SMB/CIFS, S3, or distributed block/object/file storage systems.
• Hands-on operational experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI infrastructure environments.
• Experience with CI/CD systems, automation frameworks, observability, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and performance tuning skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with the ability to influence technical discussions across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and optimize components across the software-defined storage and virtualization stack.
• Contribute to sizable portions of the product across multiple technical areas and projects involving storage, networking, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain Linux user-space and kernel-space software related to storage subsystems, networking stacks, virtualization, and infrastructure services.
• Work with virtualization technologies including KVM/QEMU, libvirt, virtio, virtual networking, and storage virtualization frameworks.
• Debug and resolve complex system-level issues involving compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and distributed systems interactions.
• Apply advanced technical knowledge and judgment to evaluate architectural tradeoffs, scalability considerations, and operational reliability.
• Drive technical solutions independently while proactively identifying risks, dependencies, and escalation points.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, support, and cloud partner teams to deliver robust infrastructure capabilities.
• Mentor junior engineers, participate in code and design reviews, and contribute to engineering best practices.
• Participate in all phases of the product lifecycle including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, operational support, and customer issue resolution.

Skills

Linux systems

C/C++

Python

Distributed systems

Cloud infrastructure

Mentoring

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

8+ years experience in systems software engineering

C/C++ and Python programming

Operating systems internals and debugging

CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code

Tools

KVM/QEMU

libvirt

virtio

AWS

Azure

GCP

OCI

Job description

Join NetApp’s Cloud Platforms organization and help build cloud-native infrastructure, software-defined storage, and virtualization platforms for enterprise-scale data management across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. Senior SDE with deep Linux, distributed storage, virtualization, and cloud experience will contribute across multiple technical areas and drive execution independently.

You will collaborate with cloud providers and engineering teams to design scalable, secure, and high-performance