NetApp

Principal Software Engineer

NetApp$220K — $372K *
Information Technology
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 12-15+ years in software development.
  • 8+ years in data management/migration systems & storage platforms.
  • 7+ years in highly scalable cloud architectures and cloud services (FAAS, PAAS).
  • Proficiency with Filesystems and protocols (NFS/SMB/iSCSI).
  • Expertise in programming languages: C, C++, Golang, Node.js, Python.
  • Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
  • Familiarity with GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, CI build systems, and Automated Testing.
  • Strong communication and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

  • Drive architecture and technical direction for complex cloud-native services, ensuring high performance and reliability.
  • Solve complex customer problems, contributing to intellectual property.
  • Mentor and coach engineers to elevate engineering standards.
  • Collaborate with team members to achieve unified team objectives.
  • Contribute to code development, reviews, and quality assurance.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance.
  • Life insurance coverage.
  • Retirement or pension plans.
  • Generous paid time off (PTO).
  • Various leave options for personal or medical needs.
  • Performance-based incentives.
  • Employee stock purchase plan and/or restricted stock units (RSUs).
Full Job Description
Job Summary

  • NetApp is uniquely placed in the industry partnering with major hyper scalers (AWS, GCP and Azure) which adds a new challenge for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) driving innovation in the space of Cloud Fundamentals. Cloud Storage team is embarking on a new charter to address these challenges for Cloud native applications, of simplifying customer operations and being a key differentiator. Bring in your experience and expertise for the new frontier, to build best in class SaaS applications, woven with architecture and design that are deployed across multiple hyper scalers. If you are someone who enjoys working on challenging system problems covering different areas of the tech stack, this might be the right opportunity for you!
    As a Principal Engineer in NetApp's Cloud Storage organization, you will lead and execute our most challenging and complex projects. You will have an opportunity to work on AWS, Azure and GCP and use cutting edge technology to provide innovative solutions. You will be responsible for system architecture, decomposing complex problems into simple solutions, understanding system interdependencies and limitations, cloud architectures, performance, scalability, bringing engineering best practices, and testing methods to the team.


Job Requirements

  • Experience Requirements
    • 15+ years in software development.
    • 7+ years hands-on with fault-tolerant, highly scalable cloud architectures, including service-oriented and cloud-native services (FaaS, PaaS) on at least one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

    Required Qualifications
    • Ability to provide end to end architecture on major initiatives.
    • Design distributed systems, cloud-native products and scaled them to production.
    • Proactive and self-driven, with strong technical judgment and influential skills.
    • Expertise in providing detailed architecture and set technical direction while contributing to implementation, design and code reviews.
    • Make high-quality technical decisions under ambiguity, trading off performance, maintainability, cost, and time-to-market, and choosing a path the team can execute.
    • Strong experience in one or more of Node.js, Python, Java, Go, or Rust. Front-end experience (TypeScript, React or Angular) is a plus.
    • Work effectively across engineering, product, and leadership.
    • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage with customers, stakeholders, and the engineering community.

    Preferred Qualifications
    • Preference for experience in designing data migration systems & storage platforms.
    • Preference for experience with filesystems, or file/cloud storage protocols. Experience in NFS/SMB/iSCSI protocols.
    • Built developer-facing products, APIs, or SDKs used by external customers at scale.
    • Containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
    • Built a new product end-to-end inside a large company.
    • Prior experience as a principal engineer or technical lead in a high-performance engineering organization.


Education

  • 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


Compensation:

The target salary range for this position is $220,000-372,000. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off (PTO), various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU's), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.

About NetApp

NetApp is a global cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloud-like experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services and applications to the right people?anytime, anywhere. Learn more at www.netapp.com.
Learn more about NetApp
Size
12,000 employees
Market Cap
$12.7 billion
Industry
Net Income
$592 million
Founded
1992
5 Year Trend
+2.8%
Revenue
$5.5 billion
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