Software Engineer - Storage Systems

About the role

NetApp is hiring a Software Engineer in Bangalore to join a team developing, testing and debugging its virtual storage and data management solutions. The role focuses on new product development as well as enhancements to existing products, with a strong emphasis on backend implementation.

Key responsibilities

• Develop end-to-end features with a focus on backend implementation.
• Debug at a low level using gdb/lldb and core dumps, and handle memory and threading issues.
• Work on distributed, highly available systems.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deliver high-quality solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues while ensuring code quality and maintainability.

Required profile

• Strong proficiency in systems programming with C and/or C++.
• Solid understanding of storage concepts such as filesystems, block I/O, caching, snapshots, replication, RAID, IO consistency and failure handling.
• Experience with Linux internals (process/threading, memory management, I/O stack), networking fundamentals and performance profiling.
• Ability to independently drive ambiguous technical work and solve problems creatively.
• Typically 3 years of related experience for manager and executive levels, 5 years for IC levels.

Required skills

• C and/or C++ systems programming; gdb/lldb debugging.
• Linux internals and performance profiling.
• Distributed, highly available system development.
• Preferred: virtualization/hypervisors (VMware ESXi, KVM/QEMU), cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), NVMe, iSCSI, NFS/SMB, S3, multipath/HA setups, and performance engineering (latency/IOPS analysis, lock contention, capacity planning).

The company describes a hybrid working environment, with in-office or in-person expectations shared during recruitment. Applications are accepted only through the company website.