Senior Software Engineer (C/C++, File System) at NetApp in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Company: NetApp
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Posted: Sep 17, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 12+ years
- Visa sponsorship available
Overview
At NetApp, our High Achievement Principles shape how we work: we innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel as a team. 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 effectivel…
Job description
- At NetApp, our High Achievement Principles shape how we work: we innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel as a team. 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
- As a Senior Software Engineer, your responsibilities will include developing and maintaining Software defined Storage solutions. You will focus on solving complex problems, developing, testing, automating and collaborating with the Software Engineering team to deploy features in a production environment. Additionally, you will be responsible for designing and implementing managed Cloud Services based on given requirements. We expect you to have excellent coding skills and take a lead role in designing and implementing managed Cloud Services.Prior experience in Filesystems would be an added advantage, and you should also have the ability to quickly learn existing code and architecture.
Responsibilities
- Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Job category: Software Engineering
- Job ID: 136391-en_US
- Own 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. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.
Requirements
- Lead to deliver features, including participating in the full software development lifecycle.
- Participate in product design, development, verification, troubleshooting, and delivery of a system or major subsystems, including authoring project specifications.
- Excellent Problem solver, proficient coder and a designer.
- Thorough understanding and extensive experience with Block/File technologies having hands-on experience in designing and developing software solutions.
- Proficient with any of the languages C, C++, and good to have Python.
- Strong in Data Structure and algorithms.
- System/Kernel programming, Experience with Filesystems or Networking or file/cloud protocols is a must.
- Experience with ONTAP or similar storage operating systems
- Familiarity with agile software development practices
- Continuously monitor, analyse, and measure system health, availability, and latency using native tooling. Develop and implement steps to improve system and application performance, availability, and reliability.
- Knowledge of infrastructure like hypervisor, Cloud Storage and experience with cloud services including Scaling, Monitoring, Load Balancers etc. is added advantage.
- Mentor junior members, participate in interviews, and contribute to building high-performance teams.
- Work on development, bug fixes/updates, spec updates, customer RCAs and automation.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Engage in incident management processes to resolve production issues within agreed SLAs/SLOs.
- 8 to 12 years of experience and must be hands-on with coding.
- B.E/B.Tech or M.S in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 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.
Skills
Required
- C
- C++
- Data Structures
- Algorithms
- System/Kernel programming
- Filesystems
- Networking
- file/cloud protocols
- Agile software development practices
Preferred
- Python
- Hypervisor
- Cloud Storage
About 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. 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.