Principal Software Engineer

Own Every Moment at Net App

At Net App, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

At Net App, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to 10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, Net App is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

As a Principal Engineer at Net App you will be part of the Trident program that brought the first open‑source, out‑of‑tree dynamic storage provisioner to Kubernetes!

You will own and define the Kubernetes story for Net App. You will help shape the roadmap of the Data Protection capabilities on Kubernetes. The role will require you to evangelize the solution in an open‑source environment. You will be responsible for pushing adoption of the proposed solution.

Our team at Net App develops innovative and unique solutions to assist our customers in solving the challenges of persistent storage consumption for Kubernetes applications and other container technologies. We work closely with upstream communities to provide code and leadership in defining the persistent storage strategy in these areas.

An ideal candidate for this position will be driven to produce results, collaborative, curious and creative. He/she strives to excel in their day‑to‑day work and will continue to produce high quality results without anyone looking over their shoulders. They will bring broad experience across multiple domains including embedded systems, operating systems, storage technologies and distributed systems.

• As a principal engineer you will design and lead the team in important architectural decisions. The candidate will provide technical leadership for the team(s) they are associated with and participate in key technical decisions. They will engage with product management on roadmaps and engage with customers on escalations and ensure that there is continuous improvement in all areas.

• Participate in technical discussions within the team and with other groups within Business Units associated with specified projects
• Responsible for providing guidance in development and testing activities of other engineers that involve several inter‑dependencies
• Work on multiple tasks and responsibilities that will contribute towards team, program, and company goals
• Coding and Execution of projects, Technical Design
• Test Automation
• Debugging/Performance analysis
• Running PoCs and R&D activities
• Enforce best practices for software design and development by involving in appropriate reviews
• Strong aptitude for learning new technologies
  
  Resourceful in applying creative ideas to solve problems

• 12+ years of relevant experience
• A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science
• Excellent coding skills in Golang and Python
• A strong understanding of concepts related to computer architecture, data structures and programming practices
• Deep technical knowledge of Kubernetes
• Understanding of Hyper Scaler technologies: AWS, GCP and AZURE
• Experience with Net App storage or cloud native storage platforms
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• A deep understanding of object‑oriented programming and design
• The candidate should have a working knowledge of Agile Scrum best practice

Bachelor's degree in technical area of study: engineering disciplines

Master's degree in technical field such as engineering, software development, preferred with less additional experience stated above

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