Intern

About the Role

As a Software Engineer Intern on one of our Systems teams, you’ll work alongside experienced engineers to design, develop, test, and enhance software that powers NetApp’s data infrastructure. Depending on your team and project assignment, you may contribute to areas such as ONTAP, storage and file systems, data protection and replication, distributed systems, business continuity, systems infrastructure, and performance. You’ll gain hands-on experience across the software development lifecycle while learning how reliable, high-performance systems are designed, developed, tested, and operated. This is a 10–12 week summer internship with start dates in May or June 2027.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, test, debug, and enhance system-level software using C and/or C++.
• Apply operating system and systems programming concepts such as processes, threads, concurrency, synchronization, and memory management.
• Contribute to software supporting storage, file systems, replication, data protection, or distributed systems.
• Investigate software defects and performance issues and help identify root causes.
• Develop automated unit, integration, or system tests to validate functionality, reliability, and performance.
• Participate across the software development lifecycle, from design and implementation through debugging, testing, and delivery.
• Collaborate across engineering teams to solve complex technical problems and improve system reliability, scalability, and performance.

Example Project Work:

• ONTAP & Storage Systems: Develop or enhance C/C++ functionality within ONTAP and its underlying storage or file-system components.
• System Reliability & Data Integrity: Build capabilities related to checkpointing, logging and tracing, data integrity, corruption detection, or automated testing.
• Business Continuity & Data Protection: Develop and test software that helps systems remain available or recover during disruptions.
• Replication & Distributed Systems: Contribute to software supporting data protection, data mobility, replication, and distributed infrastructure.
• Performance & Optimization: Analyze system behavior and improve software performance, efficiency, scalability, or reliability.
• Test & Reliability Automation: Build automated tests that improve product quality and system reliability.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Programming experience with C and/or C++ through coursework, projects, research, internships, or other hands-on experience.
• Understanding of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, and software engineering fundamentals.
• Familiarity with Linux or Unix environments.
• Exposure to systems programming concepts such as processes, threads, memory management, concurrency, or synchronization.
• Strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to learn and apply new technologies.
• Coursework, projects, or experience in areas such as operating systems, computer architecture, file systems, distributed systems, storage, networking, multithreading, or performance analysis is a plus.
• Curiosity about AI and emerging technologies, with exposure through coursework, projects, or hands-on use is considered a plus.

You don’t need experience in every technology or area listed above. We value strong software engineering fundamentals, curiosity, technical problem-solving skills, and the ability to learn.

Qualifications

• Must be enrolled in an educational or professional program through the summer of 2027.
• Candidates pursuing a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technical field are encouraged to apply.