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INTRODUCTION

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.

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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

Morrisville, North Carolina, United States; United States
Job category: Engineering
Job ID: 137188-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.

Job Summary

As an engineer in the NetApp’s CPTO organization, you will be executing our most challenging and complex projects. You will be responsible for contributing across the product development lifecycle using Agentic AI, automated validation, performance tuning and operational readiness.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Contribute to the technology strategy by coding to accelerate the pace of innovation
• Be able to contribute to new products by writing code that scales sustainably and can tune through systemic changes with velocity
• Work under the mentorship of principal and distinguished engineers and be the technical bar-raiser for senior and principal technical roles
• Execute swift delivery by coding systems that connect large scale data with analytics and AI agents for enterprise workloads

Job Requirements

• 2-5 years of hands-on experience with Go, python & React is required
• Familiarity with the design and development of system software
• Experience in the Storage/Cloud Domain is a plus
• Strong conceptual understanding of OS internals
• Expertise in algorithms, data structures, and multi-threaded programming is essential
• Commitment to sound software engineering practices and a passion for quality
• Proven track record of meeting tight deadlines without sacrificing quality
• Ability to understand customer deployment scenarios and experience in collaborating with peer teams outside of engineering
• Be proficient in using AI in coding and understanding of AI/ML
• Familiarity with database technologies such as NoSQL, Prometheus and datalake
• Hands-on experience with code conversion tools like Git
• Knowledge of software development methodologies - SCRUM/AGILE/LEAN
• Knowledge of software deployment - Docker/Kubernetes

Education

Bachelor/Master of Engineering in Computer Science; or equivalent experience

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.

AI Disclosure

For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.

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.