Distinguished Engineer - Hyperscalers

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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.

We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer (DE) reporting into Cloud Business Unit SVP&GM. In this role you will work on building and scaling Net App architecture and experiences across all three major cloud services—Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud—where Net App storage is first‑party integrated into each provider. The position is a technical leadership role that requires collaboration with other technical leaders and software engineers across Net App to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and the design of scalable architectures.

The Distinguished Engineer is expected to be a hands‑on practitioner who codes and serves as a role model for the Net App technical community, devoting 40% or more of their time to producing artifacts such as vision statements, design documents, and source code. Prior experience as a principal or senior principal engineer on geo‑distributed, high‑scale applications or services built on major cloud providers is highly preferred, and experience on storage systems is preferred but not mandatory.

• Lead the definition, design, architecture quality, implementation, and delivery of the most advanced, most difficult, most cross‑cutting, and/or most ambiguous challenges spanning the Cloud business unit.
• Operate with independence and act as a force multiplier for the company, delivering on its most complex challenges.
• Foster a culture of learning and experimentation, and advocate for best engineering, QA, and operational practices across the business unit.
• Serve as a technical leader on demanding, cross‑functional engineering projects, deconstructing complex problems into straightforward solutions and understanding system interdependencies and limitations.
• Understand not only the technical and product capabilities but also the nuances of the Net App cloud business, balancing conflicting stakeholder objectives while building trust and empathy with customers’ needs.
• Architect and build modern CI/CD infrastructure that supports several hundred developers across multiple interconnected deployment pipelines.
• Architect and design modern, cloud‑native QA frameworks and components.
• Assist in the career development of others by coaching and mentoring senior and principal engineers on advanced technical issues.
• Contribute to building intellectual property through patents.

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience as a software engineer.
• 4+ years of hands‑on experience as a senior Principal Engineer leading multiple engineering teams.
• Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Expertise 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 with cloud‑native application or services operations, data management, migration, and security.
• Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to effectively engage 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 AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Experience with monitoring frameworks such as Cloud Watch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic, or similar.
• Decent understanding of storage architectures, design patterns, and best practices; preferred experience with storage technologies such as RAID, volumes, replication…