Software Engineer (SDET)

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. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards its maximum potential. As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization’s success. This is more than a job—it’s a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Job category: Engineering Job ID: 136123-en_US

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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

We are seeking a highly skilled Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) with strong software development expertise to join our API Platform Engineering team. The ideal candidate will independently design, develop, validate, and deliver scalable, cloud-native services and APIs while championing engineering and quality excellence across the organization.

In this role, you will collaborate closely with Product Management, Architecture, Quality Engineering, and cross-functional engineering teams to influence technical direction and ensure the delivery of secure, reliable, thoroughly tested, and customer-centric solutions. You will play a key role in driving automation, enhancing product quality, and promoting best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

Job Requirements

• 4-7 years of software development experience.
• Strong programming skills in Node.js and Python with experience building production-quality software.
• Hands-on experience designing, developing, and consuming REST APIs and GraphQL APIs.
• Experience building cloud-native applications using AWS.
• Good understanding of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Strong knowledge of software design principles, scalability, performance optimization, reliability, and testing practices.
• Hands-on experience in QA automation and test framework development using Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end delivery of features, from design and development to testing, deployment, and production support.
• Design, develop, test, and maintain scalable backend services using Node.js and Python.
• Build and maintain automated test frameworks for REST APIs, GraphQL APIs, backend services, and cloud-native applications.
• Develop automated functional, integration, regression, contract, and end-to-end tests.
• Design and enhance RESTful and GraphQL APIs for internal and customer-facing applications.
• Drive engineering best practices, code quality, reliability, performance, and security.
• Define test strategies, quality standards, coverage requirements, and release readiness criteria.
• Integrate automated tests into CI/CD pipelines and improve test execution efficiency and reporting.
• Build, deploy, and support cloud-native applications on AWS.
• Troubleshoot production and customer-reported issues and implement long-term fixes.
• Perform root cause analysis for test failures and defects and strengthen automation coverage.
• Contribute to CI/CD, observability, operational readiness, and production support activities.

Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

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