Distinguished Engineer - Hyperscalers

NetApp

San Jose, CA, US
Base: $285,000-355,000; bonus/equity: not specifie...
On-site
Hyperscaler cloud architecture
Service fundamentals (availability, reliability, performance, scalability)
Developer velocity (cd/ci, testing)
This technical leadership role will require collaborating with other technical leaders and software engineers across NetApp to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and designing scalable architectures

Job Summary

  • This technical leadership role will require collaborating with other technical leaders and software engineers across NetApp to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and designing scalable architectures.
  • Distinguished Engineers (DEs) at NetApp are hands-on practitioners, not consultants, expected to code and serve as role models for the NetApp technical community.
  • Key responsibilities include leading the definition, design, architecture quality, implementation, and delivery of the most advanced, difficult, cross-cutting, and ambiguous challenges spanning across the Cloud business unit.

Matching Summary

This technical leadership role will require collaborating with other technical leaders and software engineers across NetApp to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and designing scalable architectures.

Salary

Base: $285,000-355,000; Bonus/Equity: Not specified; Benefits: Comprehensive benefits package

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Hyperscaler cloud architecture
  • Service fundamentals (availability, reliability, performance, scalability)
  • Developer velocity (CD/CI, testing)
  • Fault tolerant, highly available, low latency control plane architectures
  • Cloud native application or services operations
  • Building fully automated testing frameworks
  • Monitoring frameworks (CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic)

Nice-to-have

  • Storage systems experience
  • Intellectual property through patents
  • Foster a culture of learning and experimentation
  • Balance conflicting stakeholder objectives
  • Demonstrate empathy with customers’ needs

Key Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience as software engineer
  • 4+ years hands-on experience as a senior Principal Engineer
  • Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture
  • Expert in designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment
  • Extensive experience building fault tolerant and high scale distributed architecture on one of the major cloud providers
  • Proficient in at least one modern programming language (Java, Typescript, Python, or Ruby)
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience

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