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NetApp · 3 days ago

Distinguished Engineer - Cloud

San Jose, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

$294K/yr - $414K/yr

10+ years exp

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Responsibilities

Lead the definition, design, architecture quality, implementation, and delivery of the most advanced, most difficult, most cross-cutting, and/or most ambiguous challenges spanning across the Cloud business unit.

Operate with independence and act as force multipliers to the benefit of the company, delivering on its most complex challenges.

Foster a culture of learning and experimentation, and advocate for best engineering, QA, and Operational practices for the entire business unit.

Serve as a technical leader on demanding, cross-functional engineering projects. The expectation will be to functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions and fully understand system interdependencies and limitation.

Understand not just the technical and product capabilities but the nuances of the NetApp cloud business and help to understand and balance conflicting stakeholder objectives, while simultaneously building trust and demonstrating empathy with customers’ needs.

Architect and build modern CD/CI infrastructure which works all the time for several hundred developers working on multitude of interconnected software deployment pipelines.

Architect and design modern, cloud native QA framework and components.

Assist in the career development of others, actively coach and mentor other senior and principal engineers on advanced technical issues.

Contribute to building intellectual property through patents.

Qualification

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Required

Minimum of 10+ years of experience as software engineer.

4+ years hands-on experience as a senior Principal Engineer leading multiple software engineering teams.

Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.

Expert in designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture).

Extensive experience building fault-tolerant and high-scale distributed architecture on one of the major cloud providers.

Extensive experience of cloud-native application or services operations, data management, migration, and security.

Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to effectively engage with customers, stakeholders, and the engineering community.

Proactive and self-driven, with the ability to work independently and take ownership of initiatives.

Experience operating and troubleshooting reliable, scalable software systems.

Experience building fully automated testing frameworks from code check-in to deployment.

Proficient in at least one modern programming language such as Java, Typescript, Python, or Ruby.

Prior experience building services or applications in cloud-native architectures using either AWS, Azure, or Google cloud.

Experience with monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic, or similar).

Decent understanding of storage architectures, design patterns, and best practices. Preferred will be experience with storage technologies such as RAID, Volumes, Replication solutions.

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience.

Preferred

Prior experience working as a principal or senior principal engineer in one or more high scale, geo-distributed applications or services built on either of the major cloud providers will be highly preferred.

Prior experience working on storage systems is preferred but not mandatory.