Software Engineer Intern
NetApp · Wichita, KS
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Jul 13, 2026
Wichita, KS
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A part-time student contractor role embedded within a hardware engineering team, focused on maintaining a datacenter lab, running manual and automated tests, and building automation scripts for the E-Series product line. The work spans hardware configuration, lab environment management, and contributing to automated testing pipelines. Suited to an enrolled student with scripting experience and familiarity with Linux/Windows environments, working 20 hours per week across five days.
Junior level · National · Part-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $106,594 (middle half $82,076–$136,109).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The role is explicitly part-time (20 hrs/week, 5 days/week) for a college student contractor — classified as Part-Time accordingly.
The education requirement is enrollment in an educational or professional program, not a formal degree — no minimum degree is required.
The role blends test execution/automation (QA) with scripting and lab/datacenter maintenance. Primary day-to-day work leans toward QA testing and test automation, but there is a meaningful automation-scripting component that could also fit Software Developers.
Linux and Windows are listed together as a single 'proficiency or familiarity' requirement; Linux is named as the primary skill with Windows as an alternative since they are presented as interchangeable OS contexts.
Python, Perl, and Bash are presented as interchangeable scripting language options under the same requirement; Python is named as primary with the others as alternatives.
Git, Jenkins, BitBucket, and VSCode are listed together under 'programming tools' in the requirements section; each is emitted as a separate required skill.
Ansible is listed under the requirements section with softening language ('such as'), but per the section-placement rule this remains a hard gate; the 'such as' qualifier indicates the specific tool is interchangeable, though no named alternative is provided.
No compensation figures are provided — only a qualitative statement about competitive packages.
Posting is for a part-time engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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