Distinguished Engineer at NetApp in San Jose, California

Job Description:

Job Summary

Distinguished Engineers at NetApp are individual contributors who strive to be diverse in technology and provide technical leadership, architectural guidance and lead innovation to senior architects and engineers. They possess the ability to influence, collaborate, set technical direction, develop product roadmaps, and provide innovative solutions to solve architectural and business problems. Distinguished engineers impact the overall growth of the company by devising clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions to NetApp customers.

Job Requirements

• 15+ years' experience and regarded as a strategic problem solver across a broad set of constituents across your company and/or industry.


• Ability to get consensus and set technical direction across a large engineering organization.


• Experience in building highly available and performant Enterprise grade systems or SaaS platforms that can be leveraged for AI infrastructure and platform engineering.


• Experience with distributed systems, filesystems and networking protocols.


• Proficient with networking protocols and implementation of high-speed, scalable data planes that carry critical customer data and configuration information


• Strong knowledge of security (Encryption, key management, compliance), Identity and Access Management, RBAC.


• Experience in building multi-tenanted micro services and deployment, provisioning, and orchestration


• Understanding of RESTFUL Application Service Architecture, API management services, API gateways, service mesh and load balancers.


• Understanding of AI data pipelines, model training, inferencing as well as RAG workflows.

About team

ONTAP is NetApp's flagship storage operating system. The ONTAP team drives the product strategy, roadmap, and engineering delivery for ONTAP software and systems. You are responsible for developing innovative solutions and architecture for ONTAP software and systems spanning the areas of filesystems and storage, security, networking and protocols. The solutions you architect and design will drive mission critical applications, AI infrastructure and cloud workflows for Fortune 500 companies.

What will you do:

• Provide the technology strategy to accelerate the pace of innovation within NetApp and the Industry.


• Define the roadmap and long-term vision, derived from key business priorities, technology and competitive trends as well as new and emerging customer use cases.


• Partners with Product management and engineering to define and deliver next generation products for NetApp.


• Influence executive management and engineering to contribute towards a competitive portfolio. Demonstrate influence and act as a force multiplier across engineers at NetApp.


• Mentor senior and principal engineers and be the technical bar-raiser for senior and principal technical roles.


• Evangelize both internally and externally for NetApp products you own and become an industry recognized authority on related technologies and domain.

What will you bring:

• Globally recognized as domain expert in software and system design for highly scalable distributed storage and databases, control and data plane architectures required to fuel large scale infrastructure for serving Gen AI and AI as a Service workloads.


• Experience building highly resilient and scalable enterprise grade products.


• Experience in building large scale, compute intensive stateful applications.


• Ownership for Product and System architecture for multiple significant projects


• Expertise in coding, design, architecture, subsystems, and technology trends


• Excellent communication skills to communicate with executives, senior leadership on products, technology trends and customer issues.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

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Why NetApp?

We are all about helping customers turn challenges into business opportunity. It starts with bringing new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively to run better - but also to innovate. We tailor our approach to the customer's unique needs with a combination of fresh thinking and proven approaches.

We enable a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time per year to volunteer with their favorite organizations. We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family. We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts. Finally, we provide financial savings programs to help you plan for your future.

If you want to help us build knowledge and solve big problems, let's talk.

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