Title:  Principal Engineer

Job Summary

As a Principal Engineer in NetApp’s Cloud Service organization, you will lead and execute our most challenging and complex projects. You will be responsible for decomposing complex problems into simple solutions, understanding system interdependencies and limitations, cloud architectures, performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, engineering best practices, and testing methods.
 
You'll be partnering with our Distinguished Engineers and other leaders in the cloud storage services team, writing/reviewing code, mentoring and developing others, influencing multiple NetApp teams, and making critical technical decisions. You will be crucial in helping NetApp stay ahead of the curve and deliver innovative solutions to our customers.
 
You are expected to have a strong technical point of view, work with our internal and external partners, and earn their trust with empathy. Your ability to communicate clearly with the leaders of the companies and use data to defend your decisions will be crucial for this role.
 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead design, architecture, implementation, and delivery of complex software engineering projects in the cloud storage service organization. 
• Serve as a technical leader on demanding, cross-functional engineering projects
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions and fully understand system interdependencies and limitation.
• Understand NetApp’s existing systems, their interdependencies, and limitations
• Possess expert knowledge in  modern cloud architectures, microservices architecture, full stack development, Kubernetes, Golang/C# or another major object-oriented programming language, performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Influence multiple internal teams and external partners without authority and with strong empathy. (This is an IC role)
• Writing/reviewing code, assist in the career development of others, actively coach and mentor other senior engineers on advanced technical issues
• Contribute to building intellectual property through patents.

Job Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software/systems engineering.
• 5+ years of experience delivering SaaS solutions in one of the major cloud providers.
• 5+ years of expert-level hands-on experience in highly scalable cloud architectures, including service-oriented architectures, cloud-native (FAAS, PAAS), and cloud storage services (NOSQL and relational DB, etc.).
• Excellent experience building fault-tolerant and high-scale distributed architecture on one of the major cloud providers.
• Proactive and self-driven, with strong technical judgment and influential skills.
• Ability to influence Directors, VPs, and SVP as a critical technical adviser.
• Expertise in providing both architectural guidance and detailed technical direction.
• Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to effectively engage with customers, stakeholders, and the engineering community.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering; or equivalent experience. Masters preferred.

IC - Typically requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience.Mgr & Exec - Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience.