Software Engineer

As a Senior Engineer in NetApps AI BU you are a strong trusted technical contributor designing and building complex systems within your team while beginning to extend your influence beyond it. You bring deep hands-on expertise to the hardest problems your team faces are trusted to lead the design and delivery of significant components or projects and mentor engineers around you. You retain a hands-on individual-contributor focus.

As a Senior Engineer you will:

• Serve as tech lead and/or primary design owner for a project or component within AI BU driving it from design through delivery.
• Design and build complex high-quality software systems owning technical correctness performance and maintainability within your area.
• Author design docs/RFCs for your project or team and participate in design reviews for adjacent teams.
• Write production code and review the most complex designs and PRs within your team.
• Partner with your manager/tech lead and product stakeholders to translate requirements into technical designs.
• Mentor and support the growth of less experienced engineers on your team.
• Identify and help resolve technical risk within your area of ownership technical debt scalability limits reliability gaps.
• Contribute to and help enforce best practices in system design testing observability and operational excellence within your team.
• Stay current on new technologies frameworks and patterns and propose adoption where it adds value.

• 7 years of hands-on software engineering experience including some exposure to large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience as technical lead or primary design owner on a project or team-level initiative.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS Azure or Google Cloud.
• Working knowledge of using agentic engineering using local and/or frontier models.
• Exposure to Distributed Storage Systems.
• Ability to build consensus and communicate technical trade-offs within your team and to adjacent teams.
• Solid system design skills with experience owning the architecture of a component or service.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills able to author design docs and clearly present technical trade-offs.
• Experience with data processing analytics or AI/ML systems.
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a teams technical quality bar.
• Familiarity with CI/CD infrastructure for production deployments.

• Experience with Distributed Database Systems.
• Experience with training and deploying AI models.
• Experience with GPU workloads and accelerated computing infrastructure.