Sr. Software Engineer
Remote - US; Bellevue, Washington, United States; San Jose, California, United States
Overview
At NetApp, we have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. That’s because we bring new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively in the most efficient possible way. As an Engineer with NetApp, you’ll have the opportunity to work with modern cloud and container orchestration technologies in a production setting. You’ll play an important role in scaling systems sustainably through automation and evolving them by pushing for changes to improve reliability and velocity.
Success profile
Ready to be an engineer at NetApp? Explore the traits that can help you thrive.
- Analytical
- Adaptable
- Communicator
- Detail-oriented
- Quick-thinking
- Problem solver
Responsibilities
Bellevue, Washington, United States; Remote; San Jose, California, United States Job category: Engineering Job ID: 134065-en_USOwn Every Moment at NetApp
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.
Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins.
Job Summary
NetApp’s Cloud AI Team is building a new AI agent product for enterprise customers. The team is applying large language models, agentic frameworks, and multi-cloud engineering to help Fortune 500 companies automate complex workflows across enterprise on-premises and cloud deployments.
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the Cloud AI Team. In this role, you will design systems, write production code, and make foundational technical decisions that shape how the product works. You will be part of a high-performing team and collaborate with a talented group of engineers and product managers to deliver scalable, robust, and impactful AI solutions.
What You Will Build
- Design and build AI agent systems that reason about complex enterprise environments, integrate with external tools and data sources, and take reliable action on behalf of users.
- Develop the backend services, APIs, and orchestration layers that power agent execution, tool integration, and multi-cloud operations.
- Build developer-facing surfaces including APIs, SDKs, and tooling that make the product accessible, reliable, and intuitive for both internal and external users.
- Own end-to-end delivery of features from design through production, including architecture, implementation, testing, deployment, and operational support.
- Make foundational design decisions for a new product: data models, API contracts, service boundaries, and infrastructure patterns that will define how this system scales.
- Work across the stack in a high-ownership team where everyone builds and everyone ships.
Required Qualifications
- Design and deliver complex cloud-native applications that meet performance, scale, and reliability requirements.
- Solid programming experience in server-side languages and frameworks (e.g., Node.js, Python, Java, Golang, or Rust). Experience with front-end technologies (HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/TypeScript) and frameworks such as React or Angular is a plus.
- Proven ability to develop RESTful APIs or microservices, work with web frameworks, and integrate with databases (SQL and/or NoSQL).
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.
- Understanding of security best practices, including authentication/authorization (OAuth, SSO), encryption, and compliance standards.
- Proven ability to make sound design decisions: you can evaluate trade-offs, define system boundaries, and own the architecture of the components you build.
- Collaborate closely with team members to integrate systems and ensure high-quality deliverables for customer success.
- Actively mentor and develop team members to build a strong, high-performing team.
- Work as part of a larger team, collaborating closely with team members and leadership to ensure overall team objectives are met as ONE team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with LLM integration, AI agent frameworks, or building systems that incorporate model inference into production workflows (tool calling, retrieval-augmented generation, prompt engineering).
- Familiarity with agentic design patterns: tool-use protocols, context management, multi-step reasoning, and grounding AI models in real-time data.
- Experience building developer tools, extensions, or CLI tooling used by external developers.
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization tools such as Docker and Kubernetes, and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Experience with enterprise cloud infrastructure, data management, or storage systems.
- Experience in a fast-paced environment where you built new systems end-to-end, not just extended existing ones.
Job Requirements
- 8+ years of industry experience in software development.
- 3+ years of experience in building and operating cloud-native, fault-tolerant, highly scalable architectures, including service-oriented architectures, cloud-native services (FAAS, PAAS), with at least one hyperscaler (Azure, AWS, GCP).
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. Master's Degree Preferred.
Compensation:
The target salary range for this position is $160,000-$215,000. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off, various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.
At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
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 or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.
Why You'll Thrive at NetApp
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.
NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. 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.
Our culture
We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.
If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now.
Submitting an application
To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.
Our values
Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.
Benefits
Volunteer time off
40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.
Well-being
Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.
Time away
Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.
Jobs for you
- Product Manager Intern - Security San Jose, California, United States; Morrisville, North Carolina, United States; Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
- Sr. Software Engineer Remote - US
- Principal Software Engineer Remote - US
Your recently viewed jobs will appear here.
You have no saved jobs. Start browsing jobs here
Recruitment scam warning
When conducting a job search, you’re bombarded with outreach. Here are tips to keep you safe from recruitment fraud.
Stay in touch
Equal Opportunity Employer*
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 or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status and any other protected classification. We pledge to take every reasonable step to ensure that our applicants and employees are respected, treated fairly and with dignity. See the EEO poster, Know your rights poster, and NetApp EEO policy. NetApp makes reasonable accommodations, consistent with applicable laws, for religious purposes and for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified applicant or employee with a disability, who can perform the essential job functions unless undue hardship would result.
State-specific postings/notices to applicants regarding contract compliance can be found here in English and here in Spanish, and fair employment practice information can be found here.
Reasonable Accommodations
At NetApp, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible workplace where individuals with disabilities can thrive. In alignment with our values, NetApp provides reasonable accommodations and adjustments where possible to qualified applicants and employees with disabilities, in accordance with employment rights and regulations relevant to their country of employment, to ensure equal access to employment opportunities and job performance.
Applicants who would like to request an accommodation or adjustment are encouraged to Contact Us. Each request will be assessed on a case-by-case basis, in accordance with applicable laws and our commitment to equity and belonging within our culture, values and business practices. Requests will be handled confidentially and respectfully, and we will work collaboratively to identify effective solutions.
- For reasonable accommodations in Germany, click here.
- For reasonable accommodations in France, click here.
- For reasonable accommodations in The Netherlands, click here.
Please note that we do not accept unsolicited resumes to the above email address.
Data privacy
We care about your privacy and, therefore, ask that you read our Candidate Privacy Notice before you submit any personal information to us.
NetApp does not carry out any solely automated decision making (i.e. the process of making a decision by automated means without any human involvement) in determining your suitability or eligibility for specific roles.
However, the processing of your personal information is carried out with the aid of manual and automated tools. In particular, NetApp may use an automated employment evaluation tool or similar tool as one of several tools, actions, and/or steps to assist with NetApp’s review of candidate applications for various hiring needs. Currently, when addressing certain hiring needs, NetApp uses the Eightfold tool which can provide an initial ranking of a candidate’s skills and experience, based on information provided by the applicant in the application and/or supporting documentation, in comparison to the NetApp designated key requirements of a specific role. Additionally, the tool may be used to help review and/or rank internal employees seeking promotion or other internal mobility. However, our talent acquisition team or our recruiters will ultimately select the candidates for further consideration, following human review of any automated evaluation results and associated underlying documentation (or lack thereof) submitted with the candidates’ application.
An independent audit of the Eightfold Matching Model tool can be found at https://eightfold.ai/nyc-eightfoldmatching-model.
Candidates may request an alternative selection process which will not be subject to the Eightfold matching tool or to any electronic automated employment evaluation by contacting NetApp at careers@netapp.com. To bypass the Eightfold matching tool or any electronic automated employment evaluation, you must include a resume and job ID with your email to careers@netapp.com and you must include in the subject line of your email: Data Privacy Request. Candidates who have questions or want to request additional information on the source of data, type of data, and/or collection of data related to the candidate review process should contact NetApp at careers@netapp.com
Submitting an application
To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team reviews applications submitted through our company website only. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.