Senior Software Engineer (Security Domain)

Job Summary

Join the Security Engineering team as Senior Software Engineer and help secure NetApp's flagship storage operating system, ONTAP. As a Cybersecurity Development Engineer, you will design, develop, and enhance security capabilities that protect critical customer data across enterprise, cloud, and AI environments.

You will work on technologies spanning authentication, authorization, encryption, key management, secure communications, vulnerability mitigation, and security hardening. You will collaborate closely with kernel, networking, cloud, storage, and product security teams to build secure-by-design solutions while helping ONTAP meet evolving regulatory and customer security requirements.

This role combines deep systems software engineering with modern cybersecurity practices, including vulnerability discovery, threat modeling, secure development, incident response support, and AI-assisted security analysis.

Job Requirements

Design and develop security features including:

• Authentication and authorization
• RBAC and privilege management
• TLS/mTLS and secure communications
• IPsec and secure networking
• PKI and certificate management
• Encryption and key management
• Data-at-rest and data-in-transit protection
• Cryptographic services
• Conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling, risk assessments, and attack-tree analysis for administrative operations, credential paths, and role boundaries.
• Translate security findings and threat models into product requirements, actionable test plans, and automated security tests.
• Investigate vulnerabilities affecting ONTAP and third-party components; assess exploitability and customer impact; and drive remediation, validation, release readiness, and regression test coverage.
• Develop AI-assisted security automation for vulnerability discovery, triage, detection, validation, remediation, suspicious-behavior investigation, and security response.
• Partner with Product Security and PSIRT teams to improve security assessment workflows and respond to customer-reported vulnerabilities, security disclosures, emerging threats, and technical escalations.
• Support compliance and certification programs including FIPS 140-3, Common Criteria, NIST security standards, and the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).
• Translate regulatory and security requirements into product capabilities, engineering controls, security evidence, and release criteria.
• Participate in customer security reviews and incident response activities.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to technical excellence across the organization.

Required Qualifications

• Strong programming skills in C, C++, and Python.
• Solid knowledge of:
  • Operating systems
  • Computer architecture
  • Data structures and algorithms
  • Networking fundamentals
  • Concurrency and multithreaded programming

• Experience with security assessment methodologies and tools, including static and dynamic analysis, fuzzing, dependency analysis, and CVE triage.
• Experience conducting red-team, offensive security, vulnerability research, or security assessment activities on systems or products, including documenting findings, evaluating risk, and providing actionable remediation guidance.
• Proven experience building security automation, vulnerability assessment workflows, or automated security test frameworks.
• Strong debugging skills using tools such as GDB, DTrace, packet analyzers, and Linux/Unix development tools.
• Experience in one or more of the following areas:
  • Authentication and identity management, including Kerberos
  • TLS/mTLS and IPsec
  • PKI, cryptography, and key management
  • OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and StrongSwan
  • FIPS 140-3 and Common Criteria
  • Post-Quantum Cryptography
  • OWASP, MITRE ATT&CK, and STRIDE
  • Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDL)
  • Storage, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure
  • Ability to solve complex technical problems independently.
• Proven ability to collaborate across multiple engineering disciplines, including systems, networking, storage, cloud, and product security teams.

Ideal Candidate

• Security-focused systems engineer passionate about protecting customer data.
• Comfortable working across storage, networking, operating systems, distributed systems, and cybersecurity domains.
• Self-motivated, curious, and driven to solve complex technical challenges.
• Excited to shape the future of ONTAP Security through innovation, automation, and secure-by-design principles.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field and 5+ years of relevant experience; or
• Master's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience; or
• Equivalent combination of education and industry experience.