Position: Sr SW Engineer job in Sunnyvale, CA
Location: Sunnyvale, CA

Job Description:
As a Software Engineer you will work as part of a team responsible for actively participating in driving product development and strategy. In addition, you will participate in activities that include testing and debugging of operating systems that run NetApp storage applications. As part of the Research and Development function, the overall focus of the group is on competitive market and customer requirements, technology advances, product quality, product cost and time-to-market. Software engineers focus on enhancements to existing products as well as new product development.

Essential Functions:
- A major part of your responsibility will be to participate in any and/or all phases of the product development cycle from product definition and design, through implementation including:
- Testing
- Test automation
- Debugging
- Reliability
- Performance analysis
- Critical and/or high visibility customer support
- As part of a team, you will lead and participate in technical discussions within the immediate group and across functions, where evaluating and executing design and development plans for products are reviewed.
- You will have direct influence on the decisions and outcomes related to project direction.

Requirements:
- Proficiency in C and C++ programming language
- A strong understanding of concepts related to computer architecture, operating systems,
data structures and programming practices.
- Excellent problem solving skills.
- Programming experience a multi-threading environment
- Good knowledge and experience of HA environments -
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent team work skills.

Highly desirable skills:
- OS kernel, embedded RTOS, networking or file system related development experience in an HA environment
- NAS or SAN storage related development experience
- Experience developing test scripts/automation
- Mentor other engineers.

- Limited supervision and direction is provided, as this individual can operate, drive results and set priorities independently.
- The ideal candidate will be a proactive contributor and subject matter expert.
- To be successful, this individual must demonstrate favorable results through regular leadership and influencing others.

Education and Experience Education & Experience:
- A minimum of 8 years of experience is required. 9 to 11 years of experience is preferred.
- A Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science, a Master Degree, or a PhD; or equivalent experience is required.
- Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, complex technical projects.

Contact:
If you feel there’s a match and you’re interested in applying, please email:

Rowena Mendiola
NetApp Global Staffing
rowenam AT netapp DOT com
408-419-3673