Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Infra & Storage

NetApp; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 196,000 - 293,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Retirement plans

Paid Time Off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

NetApp is seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Development Engineer to lead innovation across cloud infrastructure, software-defined storage, virtualization, and distributed systems. You will drive foundational infrastructure capabilities powering cloud-native storage and data management across hyperscaler environments.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will apply broad expertise across distributed systems, Linux internals, storage architecture, networking, and virtualization.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in systems software engineering, distributed infrastructure platforms, virtualization, storage systems, or cloud infrastructure development.
• Expert-level programming in C/C++ with strong proficiency in Python.
• Deep expertise in Linux OS internals, kernel technologies, systems architecture, concurrency, memory management, and performance engineering.
• Significant experience designing and building distributed storage systems, software-defined infrastructure platforms, or cloud-native infrastructure services.
• Deep expertise with virtualization stacks including KVM/QEMU, virtio, hypervisors, virtual storage, and virtual networking technologies.
• Strong experience with storage and networking subsystems, kernel development, or device driver development.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, scalability, fault tolerance, reliability engineering, and operational excellence.
• Strong operational expertise with hyperscaler cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.
• Proven ability to lead large cross-functional technical initiatives and influence engineering outcomes across organizations.
• Exceptional debugging, systems analysis, and performance optimization capabilities.
• Strong communication, technical leadership, and stakeholder management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to independently solve highly complex technical challenges with broad organizational impact.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable, resilient, and high-performance infrastructure components across storage, networking, virtualization, and Linux systems layers.
• Drive architecture and technical direction for major subsystems within software-defined storage, virtualization infrastructure, and distributed cloud platforms.
• Contribute to significant portions of the product across multiple technical domains and projects while coordinating execution across stakeholders and partner teams.
• Architect and optimize storage and networking data paths for performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency in cloud-scale environments.
• Provide technical leadership across virtualization technologies including KVM/QEMU, hypervisor integrations, virtual networking, storage virtualization, and infrastructure orchestration.
• Drive engineering excellence through strong design practices, observability, scalability, reliability, automation, and operational readiness.
• Lead resolution of highly complex technical challenges involving distributed systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise storage technologies.
• Influence technical direction across organizations through architecture reviews, technical mentoring, design leadership, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Establish effective technical collaboration models across engineering teams and partner organizations to drive alignment and execution.
• Mentor engineers and help scale organizational engineering capability through technical guidance and leadership.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, storage, and virtualization platforms.

Skills

C/C++

Python

Linux internals

Distributed systems

Storage systems

KVM/QEMU

Hypervisors

Virtual networking

Performance engineering

Observability

Education

Bachelor's or Master's Degree in computer science

Tools

KVM/QEMU

virtio

Linux kernel development

Virtualization tooling

Job description

NetApp is seeking a highly experienced Senior Software Development Engineer to lead innovation across cloud infrastructure, software-defined storage, virtualization, and distributed systems. You will drive foundational infrastructure capabilities powering cloud-native storage and data management across hyperscaler environments.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will apply broad expertise across distributed systems, Linux internals, storage architecture, networking, and virtualization.