Senior Software Engineer (C++)

NetApp is looking for a Senior Software Developers to help extend our leadership in Object Storage. You will design and build features that solve complex customer problems especially around AI/ML data lakes while improving the reliability, performance, and maintainability of our platform. This role blends new development with refactoring and operational excellence: writing production-grade code, improving existing systems, and partnering with Product management and Customer Support to turn customer pain points into durable solutions. As a Lead developer working on StorageGRID you will be responsible for design and development for Manageability, design for secure, robust, reliable and durable product driving customer adoption and customer success. In addition, being part of a diverse and multi-site team, you have opportunities to build teams, partner with QA and cross-site teams to drive success.

Key Responsibilities 

• Design and architect major control plane featuresfor Storage products
• Implement, unit test, debug, verify production systems and features 
• Improve performance, reliability, availability and serviceability 
• Mentor, influence and collaborate with peerand juniorengineers 
• Support inter-dependent development and testing activities 
• Practice and influence AI-native software development lifecycle 

Job Requirements 

• C++ Required additionally: Go, Ruby, Python or Java is nice to have. 
• OO design, network programming, HTTP, AWS S3 and file systems 
• Cassandra/CQL/NoSQL or SQL databases 
• Large-scale distributed systems, HPC 
• Linux and containers 
• AI-native engineering,Agile, TDD, and continuous integration 

 Additional Roles and responsibilities:

• Embrace AI-native software development with metrics driven approach for timely and quality deliverables
• Very good understanding of development methodologies like Agile Scrum/Scrum of Scrums.
• Must have competency and proven track record of delivering complex technical projects within a team environment of other engineers, meeting tight deadlines without sacrificing quality.

• 8–12 years in software testing/quality engineering
• BE/MS in Computer Science or related field