Distinguished Engineer

NetApp

San Jose, CA, US
Base: $290,000-350,000; bonus/equity: not specifie...
On-site
Building and scaling architecture
Open-source technologies
Platform-as-a-service solutions
This is a technical leadership role that requires close collaboration with other technical leaders and software engineers to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and the design of scalable architectures

Job Summary

  • This is a technical leadership role that requires close collaboration with other technical leaders and software engineers to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and the design of scalable architectures.
  • A key responsibility will be designing fault-tolerant, highly available, and low-latency control plane architectures for cloud-native services.
  • The expectation will be to functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions and fully understand system interdependencies and limitation.

Matching Summary

This is a technical leadership role that requires close collaboration with other technical leaders and software engineers to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and the design of scalable architectures.

Salary

Base: $290,000-350,000; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • building and scaling architecture
  • open-source technologies
  • platform-as-a-service solutions
  • mission-critical workloads
  • scalable architectures
  • service fundamentals
  • developer velocity
  • fault-tolerant, highly available, low-latency control plane architectures

Nice-to-have

  • foster a culture of learning and experimentation
  • advocate for best engineering practices
  • understand system interdependencies and limitations
  • balance conflicting stakeholder objectives
  • build trust and demonstrate empathy

Key Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience as software engineer
  • 4+ years hands-on experience as Principal Engineer
  • Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture
  • Expert in designing and building large-scale systems
  • Extensive experience building fault tolerant and high scale distributed architecture on major cloud providers
  • Proficient in at least one modern programming language
  • Experience building services or applications in cloud-native architectures
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

Work Rights

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