Software Engineer (Hardware, Networking & Storage)
NetApp · Posted Oct 27
Hybrid cloud data services, enterprise storage, and cloud operations solutions
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About the role
NetApp is an enterprise storage and data infrastructure company with cloud-integrated storage services across Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure. This role is a senior QEG Engineer position focused on end-to-end development, validation, and support of on-prem technologies across firmware, software, networking, and storage. The engineer will drive architectural decisions, set technical direction, and mentor junior engineers while working on low-level systems and hardware interfaces.
What you will do
- As a QEG Engineer (Software Engineer 3), you will serve as a senior technical contributor and de facto technical leader for the end-to-end development, validation, and support of cutting-edge on-prem technologies. Beyond hands-on execution, you will drive architectural decisions, set technical direction across firmware/software/manufacturing boundaries, and mentor junior engineers. This role requires deep, demonstrated expertise in low-level systems, firmware, and software, along with the judgment to make design trade-offs independently and the influence to align cross-functional teams around them.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- Deep expertise in software development lifecycle, test strategy design, and quality ownership able to define test plans and validation frameworks, not just execute them
- Strong understanding of AI/ML and GenAI architectures, prompt engineering, and applying these to system diagnostics, automation, or tooling
- Advanced understanding of networking concepts and protocols, with ability to debug and optimize at the protocol level TCP/IP network stack Computer networks NFS, SMB, iSCSI, FC
- Advanced understanding of OS internals, with proven ability to root-cause complex kernel/networking issues Linux, Unix OS internals (Kernel & Networking) FreeBSD and its architecture OS booting process (Linux/Unix) BIOS/UEFI, GRUB bootloaders
- Advanced understanding of storage and hardware interface concepts, including performance tuning and failure analysis NAS, SAN NVMe technologies PCIe, ethernet interfaces RAID, SSDs, iSCSI & NVMe over Fabric
- Proven track record of designing and driving automation frameworks/strategy (not just writing scripts) to improve efficiency, coverage, and reliability across teams
- Expert-level programming skills in Python, C & C++, with strong software design/architecture sense
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical investigations independently, make sound decisions under ambiguity, and own outcomes end-to-end
- Track record of mentoring engineers, conducting design/code reviews, and raising the technical bar across the team
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills able to represent technical decisions to stakeholders and influence direction across software, firmware, and manufacturing teams
- Experience contributing to technical roadmap, architecture reviews, or strategic planning for the product/platform
- Education IC - Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience.Mgr & Exec - Typically requires a minimum of 3 years of related experience.
Benefits and support
- hybrid working environment
- flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life
About NetApp
NetApp, Inc. is an American data infrastructure and data management company that provides unified data storage, integrated data services, and hybrid multi-cloud operations solutions to enterprise customers. Founded in 1992, the company empowers global enterprises to manage applications and data seamlessly across on-premises environments and major public clouds. NetApp specializes in intelligent data infrastructure, cyber resilience, and AI-driven data optimization.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 11700 employees
- Founded
- 1992
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer
President
Chief Technology Officer
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