
location_on49, Peralta Avenue, Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, California, 95030, United States
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. 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.
We are a trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. Our culture celebrates mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership, providing flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.
We are hiring experienced Systems Software Engineers across multiple NetApp engineering organizations. This pipeline posting is designed to attract strong C/C++ systems-level engineers who can contribute to core storage and data management technologies across ONTAP and other NetApp products. Candidates will be considered for roles on several teams, including ONTAP, WAFL, Replication/HA, Protocols (NFS/SMB/SAN/NVMe), Distributed Systems, Cloud Platforms, and Performance Engineering.
Engineers in these roles design, build, and optimize foundational components of NetApp's storage stack. You will work on real-world problems involving filesystems, storage internals, distributed systems, performance, scalability, reliability, and data integrity. Your day-to-day may include developing new features, enhancing subsystems, analyzing complex code paths, improving throughput and latency, debugging customer issues, or driving proofs of concept. You will collaborate with senior engineers, product teams, hardware teams, and cloud engineering groups to deliver high-quality software used globally by enterprise customers.
This posting supports multiple levels (3, 4, and 5). Team and level placement will be determined during the interview process based on your experience, technical depth, and demonstrated capabilities.
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. We embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. Most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.
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, genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.
If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Make your next move your best one by applying now.
Skills: C/C++, Unix/linux, Filesystems, Storage Systems, Networking/protocol Stacks, Distributed Systems, High-Availability Architectures, GDB, Perf, Tracing.
Education: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered; Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience considered.
Work model: Hybrid
49, Peralta Avenue, Los Gatos, Santa Clara County, California, 95030, United States
Los Gatos, California
Experience with ONTAP, WAFL, or similar storage operating systems; Experience with NFS, SMB, SAN (iSCSI/FC), NVMe/TCP, NVMe-oF; Experience with replication, clustering, HA, or consistency protocols; Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI); Exposure to kernel subsystems, VFS, IO schedulers, caching, or media management; Experience with distributed systems design and large-scale performance tuning; Knowledge of CI/CD, test automation, and modern development practices.
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