Sr. Software Engineer
San Jose, CA - USA
Job Summary
Job Summary
NetApps 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 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. 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
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field. Masters Degree Preferred.
Compensation:
The target salary range for this position is $160000-$215000. The salary offered will be determined by the candidates 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 (RSUs) 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.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
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