3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end development, validation, and support for on-premises software, firmware, hardware, and manufacturing-related technologies.
- Define test plans, validation frameworks, and quality strategies across teams.
- Design and drive automation frameworks that improve efficiency, coverage, and reliability.
- Debug and optimize networking protocols and root-cause complex kernel and networking issues.
- Analyze, tune, and troubleshoot storage systems, hardware interfaces, and performance or failure scenarios.
- Make architectural decisions, set technical direction, and lead technical investigations independently.
- Contribute to technical roadmaps, architecture reviews, and strategic product or platform planning.
- Mentor engineers, conduct design and code reviews, and raise the team's technical standards.
- Collaborate with software, firmware, manufacturing, and stakeholder teams to align technical decisions.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of related experience for the IC role.
- Deep expertise in software development lifecycle, test strategy design, and quality ownership.
- Strong understanding of AI/ML, GenAI architectures, prompt engineering, and their use in diagnostics, automation, or tooling.
- Advanced networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, computer networks, NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel.
- Advanced OS-internals expertise covering Linux, Unix, FreeBSD, kernel and networking architecture, boot processes, BIOS/UEFI, and GRUB.
- Advanced storage and hardware-interface knowledge, including NAS, SAN, NVMe, PCIe, Ethernet interfaces, RAID, SSDs, iSCSI, and NVMe over Fabrics.
- Expert programming skills in Python, C, and C++, with strong software design and architecture abilities.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical investigations, making decisions under ambiguity, owning outcomes, mentoring engineers, and conducting design and code reviews.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration and communication skills.
About NetApp
NetApp builds data storage and data management software and hardware for enterprises, including ONTAP-powered all-flash arrays and hybrid cloud services that integrate with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It sells systems and subscriptions that support backup, disaster recovery, databases, and container/Kubernetes workloads. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Jose, California, NetApp is a public company listed on NASDAQ.