Title:  Principal Engineer, Cloud Storage

Job Summary

As a Principal Engineer in NetApp’s Cloud Storage 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, and possessing expert knowledge in Data Storage, disaster recovery (Ex: ONTAP), cloud architectures, performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, engineering best practices, and testing methods.

In addition to your technical expertise, you will also be responsible for partnering with technical and product leaders of all major cloud providers, 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 top leaders of multiple high-profile 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
• 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 Storage and disaster recovery (Ex, ONTAP), modern cloud architectures, microservices architecture, 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)
• 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.
• Architect and build modern CD/CI infrastructure, which works all the time for several hundred developers working on a multitude of interconnected software deployment pipelines
• Architect and design modern, cloud-native QA framework and components.

Job Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in software/systems engineering.

• 5+ years of experience in data management systems & storage platforms for managing and storing data across various workloads and environments. (Ex: NetApp’s ONTAP or similar systems).

• 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.