Title:  Staff Software Engineer

Job Summary

Are you passionate about building the future of hybrid cloud data management? NetApp is developing a portfolio of data-centric platforms and services to help organizations unlock the true power of their data.

Our Keystone team is at the forefront of this transformation, delivering innovative, subscription-based, pay-as-you-go solutions that give customers a seamless data management experience, whether on-premises or in the cloud. We are building the engine that powers this flexible consumption model, and we're looking for a technical visionary to help us solve the next generation of challenges in distributed systems, cloud services, and data analytics.

As a Staff Software Engineer in the Keystone organization, you will be a technical leader and a force multiplier for our engineering teams. You will go beyond leading projects; you will set the technical vision for critical components of our platform. You will be responsible for designing elegant, scalable, and resilient solutions to our most complex architectural challenges.

This role requires a blend of deep technical expertise, a strategic mindset, and the ability to influence and mentor engineers across the organization. If you thrive on solving ambiguous problems, driving technical excellence, and building systems that operate at a massive scale, this is the role for you.

Job Requirements

• 10+ years of professional software development experience, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality software.
• Experience acting as a mentor, tech lead, or a key technical influencer on an engineering team.
• Demonstrated expertise in leading the architectural design (design patterns, reliability, scaling) of new and existing complex systems.
• Deep, hands-on proficiency in modern programming languages like Go and/or Python.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Proven experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL) and NoSQL databases, and a deep understanding of when to use each.
• Hands-on experience with containerization and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React.js) and an understanding of full-stack architecture.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using tools like Git, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Deep knowledge of data warehousing concepts, streaming technologies (like Kafka), and data modeling for analytics.
• Experience with major public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Education

• Typically requires a minimum of 10-15 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years experience; or equivalent experience.
• A Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; or equivalent, relevant experience.