McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow's health today, we want to hear from you. The Principal AI Engineer provides the highest level of individual-contributor technical leadership for the company's AI platform, operating one level above the Lead AI Engineer role. This person sets the multi-year architecture strategy for agentic and LLM-powered systems - spanning model strategy, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool/connector ecosystems, and evaluation/governance tooling - across every team that builds on the AI platform, not just one. In a highly regulated healthcare environment, the Principal AI Engineer resolves the hardest, most ambiguous technical problems facing the platform, is a primary technical voice with executive leadership on AI strategy and risk, and shapes how the entire engineering organization adopts AI safely and effectively. Success is measured by the durability and adoption of the technical strategy this role sets across multiple teams, this role's ability to unblock cross-organizational technical risk before it becomes a delivery or compliance problem, and its influence on AI investment decisions at the executive level. Key Responsibilities Enterprise AI Strategy: Own the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap for the AI platform across all teams building on it, not a single product or team - model strategy, RAG/retrieval architecture, connector ecosystems, and evaluation frameworks. Technical Authority: Serve as the final technical escalation point for the hardest, most ambiguous architecture and reliability problems on the AI platform, spanning multiple teams and systems. Cross-Team Standards: Set architecture, security, and evaluation standards that multiple Lead AI Engineers and their teams adopt; audit and evolve those standards as the platform and threat landscape change. Executive Advisory: Serve as a primary technical voice to VP- and executive-level leadership on AI platform strategy, model risk, and investment trade-offs. Deep Technical Delivery: Personally lead architecture and prototyping for the organization's highest-ambiguity, highest-risk AI initiatives - the problems no existing team or pattern already solves. Mentorship at Scale: Develop Lead and Senior AI Engineers into stronger technical leaders through design review, technical coaching, and structured knowledge-sharing across teams. Responsible AI & Governance: Shape enterprise-wide AI governance policy - model risk review, connector/tool approval frameworks, and PHI-handling standards - in partnership with Legal/Compliance/Privacy leadership. Vendor & Model Strategy at Scale: Own evaluation and long-term strategy for foundation model providers and AI infrastructure vendors across the company, not just a single team's stack. External Technical Representation: Represent the company's AI engineering capability externally - industry forums, partner/vendor technical relationships, and recruiting for senior technical talent. Organizational Impact: Influence AI platform direction and investment across the broader enterprise, extending beyond a single business unit. Priority will be given to candidates who reside in the Columbus, OH metropolitan area. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role, presently or in the future. Minimum Requirements Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; typically 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years focused on AI/ML, LLM, or NLP systems in production and 3+ years operating as a senior individual-contributor technical leader. Fewer years required with a relevant Master's or Doctorate. Critical Skills One level of demonstrated technical leadership above a Lead AI Engineer - e.g., setting technical direction and standards across multiple teams, not just owning architecture for a single team or platform area. Proven track record setting technical strategy that multiple teams adopt, not just delivering within one team's roadmap. Deep, hands-on expertise building production LLM applications at scale: prompt engineering, RAG, agentic workflows, tool use, and evaluation harnesses - with the judgment to know which patterns will and won't hold up over multiple years. Experience with commercial large language model APIs (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI) and tool-integration protocols such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), including evaluating emerging alternatives. Strong software engineering fundamentals: Python and/or Java, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, microservices, and cloud-native design (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable). Experience with vector/graph retrieval systems, embeddings, and knowledge-base architectures at production scale across multiple products. Deep working knowledge of LLMOps/MLOps: usage attribution, cost/spend monitoring, abuse detection, and model evaluation pipelines, including designing these systems from scratch. Demonstrated ability to influence and align senior engineering and executive stakeholders without direct authority. Deep familiarity with regulated/healthcare data environments and AI governance frameworks (model risk review, connector approval tiers, PHI handling). Preferred Qualifications Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related technical field. Prior experience as a Principal, Staff, or Distinguished Engineer setting AI/ML technical strategy across multiple teams inside healthcare IT or another highly regulated industry. Track record of publications, patents, open-source contributions, or industry speaking on applied AI/LLM systems. Experience shaping enterprise-wide AI governance policy in partnership with Legal, Compliance, and Privacy leadership. Additional Skills Deep awareness of the fast-moving GenAI/agentic landscape and a demonstrated ability to separate durable technical bets from hype. Experience managing strategic relationships with AI infrastructure vendors and model providers at the enterprise level. Exceptional written and verbal communication for executive, board-level, and external technical audiences. We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here. Our Base Pay Range for this position $195,000 - $325,000 McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson's (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind: McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application. McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates. McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: . McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson's full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page. McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States) or (Canada) . Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted. Join us at McKesson!
10/27/2026
Full time
McKesson is an impact-driven, Fortune 10 company that touches virtually every aspect of healthcare. We are known for delivering insights, products, and services that make quality care more accessible and affordable. Here, we focus on the health, happiness, and well-being of you and those we serve - we care. What you do at McKesson matters. We foster a culture where you can grow, make an impact, and are empowered to bring new ideas. Together, we thrive as we shape the future of health for patients, our communities, and our people. If you want to be part of tomorrow's health today, we want to hear from you. The Principal AI Engineer provides the highest level of individual-contributor technical leadership for the company's AI platform, operating one level above the Lead AI Engineer role. This person sets the multi-year architecture strategy for agentic and LLM-powered systems - spanning model strategy, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool/connector ecosystems, and evaluation/governance tooling - across every team that builds on the AI platform, not just one. In a highly regulated healthcare environment, the Principal AI Engineer resolves the hardest, most ambiguous technical problems facing the platform, is a primary technical voice with executive leadership on AI strategy and risk, and shapes how the entire engineering organization adopts AI safely and effectively. Success is measured by the durability and adoption of the technical strategy this role sets across multiple teams, this role's ability to unblock cross-organizational technical risk before it becomes a delivery or compliance problem, and its influence on AI investment decisions at the executive level. Key Responsibilities Enterprise AI Strategy: Own the multi-year technical strategy and roadmap for the AI platform across all teams building on it, not a single product or team - model strategy, RAG/retrieval architecture, connector ecosystems, and evaluation frameworks. Technical Authority: Serve as the final technical escalation point for the hardest, most ambiguous architecture and reliability problems on the AI platform, spanning multiple teams and systems. Cross-Team Standards: Set architecture, security, and evaluation standards that multiple Lead AI Engineers and their teams adopt; audit and evolve those standards as the platform and threat landscape change. Executive Advisory: Serve as a primary technical voice to VP- and executive-level leadership on AI platform strategy, model risk, and investment trade-offs. Deep Technical Delivery: Personally lead architecture and prototyping for the organization's highest-ambiguity, highest-risk AI initiatives - the problems no existing team or pattern already solves. Mentorship at Scale: Develop Lead and Senior AI Engineers into stronger technical leaders through design review, technical coaching, and structured knowledge-sharing across teams. Responsible AI & Governance: Shape enterprise-wide AI governance policy - model risk review, connector/tool approval frameworks, and PHI-handling standards - in partnership with Legal/Compliance/Privacy leadership. Vendor & Model Strategy at Scale: Own evaluation and long-term strategy for foundation model providers and AI infrastructure vendors across the company, not just a single team's stack. External Technical Representation: Represent the company's AI engineering capability externally - industry forums, partner/vendor technical relationships, and recruiting for senior technical talent. Organizational Impact: Influence AI platform direction and investment across the broader enterprise, extending beyond a single business unit. Priority will be given to candidates who reside in the Columbus, OH metropolitan area. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role, presently or in the future. Minimum Requirements Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; typically 12+ years of software engineering experience, including 6+ years focused on AI/ML, LLM, or NLP systems in production and 3+ years operating as a senior individual-contributor technical leader. Fewer years required with a relevant Master's or Doctorate. Critical Skills One level of demonstrated technical leadership above a Lead AI Engineer - e.g., setting technical direction and standards across multiple teams, not just owning architecture for a single team or platform area. Proven track record setting technical strategy that multiple teams adopt, not just delivering within one team's roadmap. Deep, hands-on expertise building production LLM applications at scale: prompt engineering, RAG, agentic workflows, tool use, and evaluation harnesses - with the judgment to know which patterns will and won't hold up over multiple years. Experience with commercial large language model APIs (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI) and tool-integration protocols such as Model Context Protocol (MCP), including evaluating emerging alternatives. Strong software engineering fundamentals: Python and/or Java, REST APIs, event-driven architecture, microservices, and cloud-native design (Azure preferred; AWS/GCP acceptable). Experience with vector/graph retrieval systems, embeddings, and knowledge-base architectures at production scale across multiple products. Deep working knowledge of LLMOps/MLOps: usage attribution, cost/spend monitoring, abuse detection, and model evaluation pipelines, including designing these systems from scratch. Demonstrated ability to influence and align senior engineering and executive stakeholders without direct authority. Deep familiarity with regulated/healthcare data environments and AI governance frameworks (model risk review, connector approval tiers, PHI handling). Preferred Qualifications Advanced degree (M.S. or Ph.D.) in Computer Science, AI/ML, or a related technical field. Prior experience as a Principal, Staff, or Distinguished Engineer setting AI/ML technical strategy across multiple teams inside healthcare IT or another highly regulated industry. Track record of publications, patents, open-source contributions, or industry speaking on applied AI/LLM systems. Experience shaping enterprise-wide AI governance policy in partnership with Legal, Compliance, and Privacy leadership. Additional Skills Deep awareness of the fast-moving GenAI/agentic landscape and a demonstrated ability to separate durable technical bets from hype. Experience managing strategic relationships with AI infrastructure vendors and model providers at the enterprise level. Exceptional written and verbal communication for executive, board-level, and external technical audiences. We are proud to offer a competitive compensation package at McKesson as part of our Total Rewards. This is determined by several factors, including performance, experience and skills, equity, regular job market evaluations, and geographical markets. The pay range shown below is aligned with McKesson's pay philosophy, and pay will always be compliant with any applicable regulations. In addition to base pay, other compensation, such as an annual bonus or long-term incentive opportunities may be offered. For more information regarding benefits at McKesson, please click here. Our Base Pay Range for this position $195,000 - $325,000 McKesson has become aware of online recruiting-related scams in which individuals who are not affiliated with or authorized by McKesson are using McKesson's (or affiliated entities, like CoverMyMeds or RxCrossroads) name in fraudulent emails, job postings or social media messages. In light of these scams, please bear the following in mind: McKesson Talent Advisors will never solicit money or credit card information in connection with a McKesson job application. McKesson Talent Advisors do not communicate with candidates via online chatrooms or using email accounts such as Gmail or Hotmail. Note that McKesson does rely on a virtual assistant (Gia) for certain recruiting-related communications with candidates. McKesson job postings are posted on our career site: . McKesson is an Equal Opportunity Employer McKesson provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, genetic information, or any other legally protected category. For additional information on McKesson's full Equal Employment Opportunity policies, visit our Equal Employment Opportunity page. McKesson is committed to being an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers including job seekers with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation to assist with your job search or application for employment, please contact us by sending an email to (United States) or (Canada) . Resumes or CVs submitted to this email box will not be accepted. Join us at McKesson!
Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, 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. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function. Job Summary Distinguished Engineer - AI Infrastructure We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer with unrivaled depth in AI/ML inferencing at scale and the distributed systems foundations that power it. You will architect and ship our next-generation AI infrastructure and inferencing platform serving millions of requests with uncompromising latency, throughput, and reliability requirements. You set the technical North Star-translating high-stakes business problems into elegant, defensible architectures that teams rally behind. You drive consensus through technical authority, shaping roadmaps where your architectural decisions become company strategy. You invent solutions where standard approaches fail, and turn constraints into lasting competitive moats. Core Expertise Required: AI Inferencing & ML Systems: Deep hands-on experience with high-performance inference engines (TensorRT, vLLM, ONNX Runtime, Triton), model optimization (quantization, pruning, distillation), and serving patterns for LLMs and computer vision models at scale. Proven track record building, architecting RAG pipelines and optimizing retrieval-augmented generation workflows for production latency targets. Distributed Systems at Scale: 15+ years architecting fault-tolerant, low-latency distributed systems. Expert-level understanding of consensus protocols, distributed state management, and data consistency models under partition. Experience with high-performance filesystems and storage engines optimized for AI workloads (checkpoints, model artifacts, training datasets). AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineering: Built enterprise-grade or SaaS platforms specifically designed for AI/ML workloads-model registries, feature stores, inference gateways, and multi-tenant serving infrastructure. Deep familiarity with GPU/TPU cluster orchestration, memory hierarchy optimization, and heterogeneous compute scheduling. High-Performance Data Planes: Designed and implemented high-throughput, low-latency networking stacks for critical data path operations. Expertise in RDMA, DPDK, kernel bypass techniques, and custom protocols for inter-service and accelerator-to-accelerator communication. Security & Multi-Tenancy: Hardened multi-tenant ML infrastructure with robust isolation, end-to-end encryption, key management for model weights, and fine-grained RBAC/ABAC for data scientists and production workloads. Cloud-Native Orchestration: Expert in Kubernetes scheduling extensions (device plugins, custom controllers), service mesh for AI microservices, and API gateway patterns for model serving. Job Requirements About the team ONTAP is NetApp's flagship storage operating system. The ONTAP team drives the product strategy, roadmap, and engineering delivery for ONTAP software and systems. You are responsible for developing innovative solutions and architecture for ONTAP software and systems spanning the areas of filesystems and storage, security, networking and protocols. The solutions you architect and design will drive mission critical applications, AI infrastructure and cloud workflows for Fortune 500 companies. What will you do: Provide the technology strategy to accelerate the pace of innovation within NetApp and the Industry. Define the roadmap and long-term vision, derived from key business priorities, technology and competitive trends as well as new and emerging customer use cases. Partner with Product management and engineering to define and deliver next generation products for NetApp. Influence executive management and engineering to contribute towards a competitive portfolio. Demonstrate influence and act as a force multiplier across engineers at NetApp. Mentor senior and principal engineers and be the technical bar-raiser for senior and principal technical roles. Evangelize both internally and externally for NetApp products you own and become an industry recognized authority on related technologies and domain. What will you bring: Globally recognized as domain expert in software and system design for highly scalable distributed storage and databases, control and data plane architectures required to fuel large scale infrastructure for serving Gen AI and AI as a Service workloads. Experience building highly resilient and scalable enterprise grade products. Experience in building large scale, compute intensive stateful applications. Ownership for Product and System architecture for multiple significant projects Expertise in coding, design, architecture, subsystems, and technology trends Excellent communication skills to communicate with executives, senior leadership on products, technology trends and customer issues. Compensation: The target salary range for this position is 266,050 - 396,000 USD. 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, 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. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment-you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed-they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support-rather than replace-human decision-making.
10/26/2026
Full time
Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, 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. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function. Job Summary Distinguished Engineer - AI Infrastructure We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer with unrivaled depth in AI/ML inferencing at scale and the distributed systems foundations that power it. You will architect and ship our next-generation AI infrastructure and inferencing platform serving millions of requests with uncompromising latency, throughput, and reliability requirements. You set the technical North Star-translating high-stakes business problems into elegant, defensible architectures that teams rally behind. You drive consensus through technical authority, shaping roadmaps where your architectural decisions become company strategy. You invent solutions where standard approaches fail, and turn constraints into lasting competitive moats. Core Expertise Required: AI Inferencing & ML Systems: Deep hands-on experience with high-performance inference engines (TensorRT, vLLM, ONNX Runtime, Triton), model optimization (quantization, pruning, distillation), and serving patterns for LLMs and computer vision models at scale. Proven track record building, architecting RAG pipelines and optimizing retrieval-augmented generation workflows for production latency targets. Distributed Systems at Scale: 15+ years architecting fault-tolerant, low-latency distributed systems. Expert-level understanding of consensus protocols, distributed state management, and data consistency models under partition. Experience with high-performance filesystems and storage engines optimized for AI workloads (checkpoints, model artifacts, training datasets). AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineering: Built enterprise-grade or SaaS platforms specifically designed for AI/ML workloads-model registries, feature stores, inference gateways, and multi-tenant serving infrastructure. Deep familiarity with GPU/TPU cluster orchestration, memory hierarchy optimization, and heterogeneous compute scheduling. High-Performance Data Planes: Designed and implemented high-throughput, low-latency networking stacks for critical data path operations. Expertise in RDMA, DPDK, kernel bypass techniques, and custom protocols for inter-service and accelerator-to-accelerator communication. Security & Multi-Tenancy: Hardened multi-tenant ML infrastructure with robust isolation, end-to-end encryption, key management for model weights, and fine-grained RBAC/ABAC for data scientists and production workloads. Cloud-Native Orchestration: Expert in Kubernetes scheduling extensions (device plugins, custom controllers), service mesh for AI microservices, and API gateway patterns for model serving. Job Requirements About the team ONTAP is NetApp's flagship storage operating system. The ONTAP team drives the product strategy, roadmap, and engineering delivery for ONTAP software and systems. You are responsible for developing innovative solutions and architecture for ONTAP software and systems spanning the areas of filesystems and storage, security, networking and protocols. The solutions you architect and design will drive mission critical applications, AI infrastructure and cloud workflows for Fortune 500 companies. What will you do: Provide the technology strategy to accelerate the pace of innovation within NetApp and the Industry. Define the roadmap and long-term vision, derived from key business priorities, technology and competitive trends as well as new and emerging customer use cases. Partner with Product management and engineering to define and deliver next generation products for NetApp. Influence executive management and engineering to contribute towards a competitive portfolio. Demonstrate influence and act as a force multiplier across engineers at NetApp. Mentor senior and principal engineers and be the technical bar-raiser for senior and principal technical roles. Evangelize both internally and externally for NetApp products you own and become an industry recognized authority on related technologies and domain. What will you bring: Globally recognized as domain expert in software and system design for highly scalable distributed storage and databases, control and data plane architectures required to fuel large scale infrastructure for serving Gen AI and AI as a Service workloads. Experience building highly resilient and scalable enterprise grade products. Experience in building large scale, compute intensive stateful applications. Ownership for Product and System architecture for multiple significant projects Expertise in coding, design, architecture, subsystems, and technology trends Excellent communication skills to communicate with executives, senior leadership on products, technology trends and customer issues. Compensation: The target salary range for this position is 266,050 - 396,000 USD. 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, 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. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment-you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed-they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support-rather than replace-human decision-making.
Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, 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. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function. Job Summary We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer (DE) reporting into Cloud Business Unit SVP&GM. Someone in this role will get the opportunity to work on building and scaling NetApp architecture and experience across all three major cloud services - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud as NetApp storage is first party integrated into all these three cloud providers. This is a technical leadership role which will require collaborating with other technical leaders and software engineers across NetApp to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and designing scalable architectures. It is expected that someone in this role will work on most complex engineering problems in space of service fundamentals (availability, reliability, performance, and scalability), developer velocity (CD/CI, modern canary, and real user telemetry-based testing) and designing fault tolerant, highly available and low latency control plane architectures. To earn the respect of the NetApp software engineering community and to keep their tools sharp, Distinguished Engineers (DEs) at NetApp are hands-on practitioners, not consultants. So, it is expected that someone in this role should be able to code and serve as role model for the NetApp technical community. It is expected the person in the role will devote 40% or more of their time in producing artifacts, such as vision statements, design documents, and source code. Prior experience working as a principal or senior principal engineer in one or more high scale, geo distributed applications or services built on either of the major cloud providers will be highly preferred. Prior experience working on storage systems is preferred but not mandatory. Key Responsibilities Lead the definition, design, architecture quality, implementation, and delivery of the most advanced, most difficult, most cross-cutting, and/or most ambiguous challenges spanning across the Cloud business unit. Operate with independence and act as force multipliers to the benefit of the company, delivering on its most complex challenges. Foster a culture of learning and experimentation, and advocate for best engineering, QA, and Operational practices for the entire business unit. Serve as a technical leader on demanding, cross-functional engineering projects. The expectation will be to functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions and fully understand system interdependencies and limitation. Understand not just the technical and product capabilities but the nuances of the NetApp cloud business and help to understand and balance conflicting stakeholder objectives, while simultaneously building trust and demonstrating empathy with customers' needs. Architect and build modern CD/CI infrastructure which works all the time for several hundred developers working on multitude of interconnected software deployment pipelines. Architect and design modern, cloud native QA framework and components. Assist in the career development of others, actively coach and mentor other senior and principal engineers on advanced technical issues. Contribute to building intellectual property through patents. Job Requirements Minimum of 10+ years of experience as software engineer. 4+ years hands-on experience as a senior Principal Engineer leading multiple software engineering teams. Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices. Expert 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 of cloud native application or services operations, data management, migration, and security. Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to effectively engage with 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 either AWS, Azure, or Google cloud. Experience with monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar). Decent understanding of storage architectures, design patterns, and best practices. Preferred will be experience with storage technologies such as RAID, Volumes, Replication solutions. Assist in the career development of others, actively coach and mentor other senior and principal engineers on advanced technical issues. Contribute to building intellectual property through patents. Education Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience. Compensation: The target salary range for this position is $285,000-355,000. 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. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment-you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed-they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support-rather than replace-human decision-making.
10/26/2026
Full time
Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, 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. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function. Job Summary We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer (DE) reporting into Cloud Business Unit SVP&GM. Someone in this role will get the opportunity to work on building and scaling NetApp architecture and experience across all three major cloud services - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud as NetApp storage is first party integrated into all these three cloud providers. This is a technical leadership role which will require collaborating with other technical leaders and software engineers across NetApp to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and designing scalable architectures. It is expected that someone in this role will work on most complex engineering problems in space of service fundamentals (availability, reliability, performance, and scalability), developer velocity (CD/CI, modern canary, and real user telemetry-based testing) and designing fault tolerant, highly available and low latency control plane architectures. To earn the respect of the NetApp software engineering community and to keep their tools sharp, Distinguished Engineers (DEs) at NetApp are hands-on practitioners, not consultants. So, it is expected that someone in this role should be able to code and serve as role model for the NetApp technical community. It is expected the person in the role will devote 40% or more of their time in producing artifacts, such as vision statements, design documents, and source code. Prior experience working as a principal or senior principal engineer in one or more high scale, geo distributed applications or services built on either of the major cloud providers will be highly preferred. Prior experience working on storage systems is preferred but not mandatory. Key Responsibilities Lead the definition, design, architecture quality, implementation, and delivery of the most advanced, most difficult, most cross-cutting, and/or most ambiguous challenges spanning across the Cloud business unit. Operate with independence and act as force multipliers to the benefit of the company, delivering on its most complex challenges. Foster a culture of learning and experimentation, and advocate for best engineering, QA, and Operational practices for the entire business unit. Serve as a technical leader on demanding, cross-functional engineering projects. The expectation will be to functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions and fully understand system interdependencies and limitation. Understand not just the technical and product capabilities but the nuances of the NetApp cloud business and help to understand and balance conflicting stakeholder objectives, while simultaneously building trust and demonstrating empathy with customers' needs. Architect and build modern CD/CI infrastructure which works all the time for several hundred developers working on multitude of interconnected software deployment pipelines. Architect and design modern, cloud native QA framework and components. Assist in the career development of others, actively coach and mentor other senior and principal engineers on advanced technical issues. Contribute to building intellectual property through patents. Job Requirements Minimum of 10+ years of experience as software engineer. 4+ years hands-on experience as a senior Principal Engineer leading multiple software engineering teams. Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices. Expert 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 of cloud native application or services operations, data management, migration, and security. Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to effectively engage with 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 either AWS, Azure, or Google cloud. Experience with monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar). Decent understanding of storage architectures, design patterns, and best practices. Preferred will be experience with storage technologies such as RAID, Volumes, Replication solutions. Assist in the career development of others, actively coach and mentor other senior and principal engineers on advanced technical issues. Contribute to building intellectual property through patents. Education Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience. Compensation: The target salary range for this position is $285,000-355,000. 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. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment-you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed-they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support-rather than replace-human decision-making.
Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, 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. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function. Job Summary We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer (DE) reporting into Cloud Business Unit SVP&GM. Someone in this role will get the opportunity to work on building and scaling NetApp architecture and experience across all three major cloud services - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud as NetApp storage is first party integrated into all these three cloud providers. This is a technical leadership role which will require collaborating with other technical leaders and software engineers across NetApp to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and designing scalable architectures. It is expected that someone in this role will work on most complex engineering problems in space of service fundamentals (availability, reliability, performance, and scalability), developer velocity (CD/CI, modern canary, and real user telemetry-based testing) and designing fault tolerant, highly available and low latency control plane architectures. To earn the respect of the NetApp software engineering community and to keep their tools sharp, Distinguished Engineers (DEs) at NetApp are hands-on practitioners, not consultants. So, it is expected that someone in this role should be able to code and serve as role model for the NetApp technical community. It is expected the person in the role will devote 40% or more of their time in producing artifacts, such as vision statements, design documents, and source code. Prior experience working as a principal or senior principal engineer in one or more high scale, geo distributed applications or services built on either of the major cloud providers will be highly preferred. Prior experience working on storage systems is preferred but not mandatory. Key Responsibilities Lead the definition, design, architecture quality, implementation, and delivery of the most advanced, most difficult, most cross-cutting, and/or most ambiguous challenges spanning across the Cloud business unit. Operate with independence and act as force multipliers to the benefit of the company, delivering on its most complex challenges. Foster a culture of learning and experimentation, and advocate for best engineering, QA, and Operational practices for the entire business unit. Serve as a technical leader on demanding, cross-functional engineering projects. The expectation will be to functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions and fully understand system interdependencies and limitation. Understand not just the technical and product capabilities but the nuances of the NetApp cloud business and help to understand and balance conflicting stakeholder objectives, while simultaneously building trust and demonstrating empathy with customers' needs. Architect and build modern CD/CI infrastructure which works all the time for several hundred developers working on multitude of interconnected software deployment pipelines. Architect and design modern, cloud native QA framework and components. Assist in the career development of others, actively coach and mentor other senior and principal engineers on advanced technical issues. Contribute to building intellectual property through patents. Job Requirements Minimum of 10+ years of experience as software engineer. 4+ years hands-on experience as a senior Principal Engineer leading multiple software engineering teams. Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices. Expert 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 of cloud native application or services operations, data management, migration, and security. Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to effectively engage with 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 either AWS, Azure, or Google cloud. Experience with monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar). Decent understanding of storage architectures, design patterns, and best practices. Preferred will be experience with storage technologies such as RAID, Volumes, Replication solutions. Assist in the career development of others, actively coach and mentor other senior and principal engineers on advanced technical issues. Contribute to building intellectual property through patents. Education Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience. Compensation: The target salary range for this position is $285,000-355,000. 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. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment-you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed-they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support-rather than replace-human decision-making.
10/26/2026
Full time
Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, 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. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function. Job Summary We are looking for a Distinguished Engineer (DE) reporting into Cloud Business Unit SVP&GM. Someone in this role will get the opportunity to work on building and scaling NetApp architecture and experience across all three major cloud services - Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud as NetApp storage is first party integrated into all these three cloud providers. This is a technical leadership role which will require collaborating with other technical leaders and software engineers across NetApp to drive innovation, engineering excellence, and designing scalable architectures. It is expected that someone in this role will work on most complex engineering problems in space of service fundamentals (availability, reliability, performance, and scalability), developer velocity (CD/CI, modern canary, and real user telemetry-based testing) and designing fault tolerant, highly available and low latency control plane architectures. To earn the respect of the NetApp software engineering community and to keep their tools sharp, Distinguished Engineers (DEs) at NetApp are hands-on practitioners, not consultants. So, it is expected that someone in this role should be able to code and serve as role model for the NetApp technical community. It is expected the person in the role will devote 40% or more of their time in producing artifacts, such as vision statements, design documents, and source code. Prior experience working as a principal or senior principal engineer in one or more high scale, geo distributed applications or services built on either of the major cloud providers will be highly preferred. Prior experience working on storage systems is preferred but not mandatory. Key Responsibilities Lead the definition, design, architecture quality, implementation, and delivery of the most advanced, most difficult, most cross-cutting, and/or most ambiguous challenges spanning across the Cloud business unit. Operate with independence and act as force multipliers to the benefit of the company, delivering on its most complex challenges. Foster a culture of learning and experimentation, and advocate for best engineering, QA, and Operational practices for the entire business unit. Serve as a technical leader on demanding, cross-functional engineering projects. The expectation will be to functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions and fully understand system interdependencies and limitation. Understand not just the technical and product capabilities but the nuances of the NetApp cloud business and help to understand and balance conflicting stakeholder objectives, while simultaneously building trust and demonstrating empathy with customers' needs. Architect and build modern CD/CI infrastructure which works all the time for several hundred developers working on multitude of interconnected software deployment pipelines. Architect and design modern, cloud native QA framework and components. Assist in the career development of others, actively coach and mentor other senior and principal engineers on advanced technical issues. Contribute to building intellectual property through patents. Job Requirements Minimum of 10+ years of experience as software engineer. 4+ years hands-on experience as a senior Principal Engineer leading multiple software engineering teams. Expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices. Expert 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 of cloud native application or services operations, data management, migration, and security. Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to effectively engage with 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 either AWS, Azure, or Google cloud. Experience with monitoring frameworks (such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Grafana, Elastic or similar). Decent understanding of storage architectures, design patterns, and best practices. Preferred will be experience with storage technologies such as RAID, Volumes, Replication solutions. Assist in the career development of others, actively coach and mentor other senior and principal engineers on advanced technical issues. Contribute to building intellectual property through patents. Education Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field or equivalent experience. Compensation: The target salary range for this position is $285,000-355,000. 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. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment-you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed-they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support-rather than replace-human decision-making.
Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, 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. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function. Job Summary Distinguished Engineer - AI Infrastructure We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer with unrivaled depth in AI/ML inferencing at scale and the distributed systems foundations that power it. You will architect and ship our next-generation AI infrastructure and inferencing platform serving millions of requests with uncompromising latency, throughput, and reliability requirements. You set the technical North Star-translating high-stakes business problems into elegant, defensible architectures that teams rally behind. You drive consensus through technical authority, shaping roadmaps where your architectural decisions become company strategy. You invent solutions where standard approaches fail, and turn constraints into lasting competitive moats. Core Expertise Required: AI Inferencing & ML Systems: Deep hands-on experience with high-performance inference engines (TensorRT, vLLM, ONNX Runtime, Triton), model optimization (quantization, pruning, distillation), and serving patterns for LLMs and computer vision models at scale. Proven track record building, architecting RAG pipelines and optimizing retrieval-augmented generation workflows for production latency targets. Distributed Systems at Scale: 15+ years architecting fault-tolerant, low-latency distributed systems. Expert-level understanding of consensus protocols, distributed state management, and data consistency models under partition. Experience with high-performance filesystems and storage engines optimized for AI workloads (checkpoints, model artifacts, training datasets). AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineering: Built enterprise-grade or SaaS platforms specifically designed for AI/ML workloads-model registries, feature stores, inference gateways, and multi-tenant serving infrastructure. Deep familiarity with GPU/TPU cluster orchestration, memory hierarchy optimization, and heterogeneous compute scheduling. High-Performance Data Planes: Designed and implemented high-throughput, low-latency networking stacks for critical data path operations. Expertise in RDMA, DPDK, kernel bypass techniques, and custom protocols for inter-service and accelerator-to-accelerator communication. Security & Multi-Tenancy: Hardened multi-tenant ML infrastructure with robust isolation, end-to-end encryption, key management for model weights, and fine-grained RBAC/ABAC for data scientists and production workloads. Cloud-Native Orchestration: Expert in Kubernetes scheduling extensions (device plugins, custom controllers), service mesh for AI microservices, and API gateway patterns for model serving. Job Requirements About the team ONTAP is NetApp's flagship storage operating system. The ONTAP team drives the product strategy, roadmap, and engineering delivery for ONTAP software and systems. You are responsible for developing innovative solutions and architecture for ONTAP software and systems spanning the areas of filesystems and storage, security, networking and protocols. The solutions you architect and design will drive mission critical applications, AI infrastructure and cloud workflows for Fortune 500 companies. What will you do: Provide the technology strategy to accelerate the pace of innovation within NetApp and the Industry. Define the roadmap and long-term vision, derived from key business priorities, technology and competitive trends as well as new and emerging customer use cases. Partner with Product management and engineering to define and deliver next generation products for NetApp. Influence executive management and engineering to contribute towards a competitive portfolio. Demonstrate influence and act as a force multiplier across engineers at NetApp. Mentor senior and principal engineers and be the technical bar-raiser for senior and principal technical roles. Evangelize both internally and externally for NetApp products you own and become an industry recognized authority on related technologies and domain. What will you bring: Globally recognized as domain expert in software and system design for highly scalable distributed storage and databases, control and data plane architectures required to fuel large scale infrastructure for serving Gen AI and AI as a Service workloads. Experience building highly resilient and scalable enterprise grade products. Experience in building large scale, compute intensive stateful applications. Ownership for Product and System architecture for multiple significant projects Expertise in coding, design, architecture, subsystems, and technology trends Excellent communication skills to communicate with executives, senior leadership on products, technology trends and customer issues. Compensation: The target salary range for this position is 266,050 - 396,000 USD. 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, 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. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment-you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed-they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support-rather than replace-human decision-making.
10/26/2026
Full time
Own Every Moment at NetApp At NetApp, 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. Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function. Job Summary Distinguished Engineer - AI Infrastructure We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer with unrivaled depth in AI/ML inferencing at scale and the distributed systems foundations that power it. You will architect and ship our next-generation AI infrastructure and inferencing platform serving millions of requests with uncompromising latency, throughput, and reliability requirements. You set the technical North Star-translating high-stakes business problems into elegant, defensible architectures that teams rally behind. You drive consensus through technical authority, shaping roadmaps where your architectural decisions become company strategy. You invent solutions where standard approaches fail, and turn constraints into lasting competitive moats. Core Expertise Required: AI Inferencing & ML Systems: Deep hands-on experience with high-performance inference engines (TensorRT, vLLM, ONNX Runtime, Triton), model optimization (quantization, pruning, distillation), and serving patterns for LLMs and computer vision models at scale. Proven track record building, architecting RAG pipelines and optimizing retrieval-augmented generation workflows for production latency targets. Distributed Systems at Scale: 15+ years architecting fault-tolerant, low-latency distributed systems. Expert-level understanding of consensus protocols, distributed state management, and data consistency models under partition. Experience with high-performance filesystems and storage engines optimized for AI workloads (checkpoints, model artifacts, training datasets). AI Infrastructure & Platform Engineering: Built enterprise-grade or SaaS platforms specifically designed for AI/ML workloads-model registries, feature stores, inference gateways, and multi-tenant serving infrastructure. Deep familiarity with GPU/TPU cluster orchestration, memory hierarchy optimization, and heterogeneous compute scheduling. High-Performance Data Planes: Designed and implemented high-throughput, low-latency networking stacks for critical data path operations. Expertise in RDMA, DPDK, kernel bypass techniques, and custom protocols for inter-service and accelerator-to-accelerator communication. Security & Multi-Tenancy: Hardened multi-tenant ML infrastructure with robust isolation, end-to-end encryption, key management for model weights, and fine-grained RBAC/ABAC for data scientists and production workloads. Cloud-Native Orchestration: Expert in Kubernetes scheduling extensions (device plugins, custom controllers), service mesh for AI microservices, and API gateway patterns for model serving. Job Requirements About the team ONTAP is NetApp's flagship storage operating system. The ONTAP team drives the product strategy, roadmap, and engineering delivery for ONTAP software and systems. You are responsible for developing innovative solutions and architecture for ONTAP software and systems spanning the areas of filesystems and storage, security, networking and protocols. The solutions you architect and design will drive mission critical applications, AI infrastructure and cloud workflows for Fortune 500 companies. What will you do: Provide the technology strategy to accelerate the pace of innovation within NetApp and the Industry. Define the roadmap and long-term vision, derived from key business priorities, technology and competitive trends as well as new and emerging customer use cases. Partner with Product management and engineering to define and deliver next generation products for NetApp. Influence executive management and engineering to contribute towards a competitive portfolio. Demonstrate influence and act as a force multiplier across engineers at NetApp. Mentor senior and principal engineers and be the technical bar-raiser for senior and principal technical roles. Evangelize both internally and externally for NetApp products you own and become an industry recognized authority on related technologies and domain. What will you bring: Globally recognized as domain expert in software and system design for highly scalable distributed storage and databases, control and data plane architectures required to fuel large scale infrastructure for serving Gen AI and AI as a Service workloads. Experience building highly resilient and scalable enterprise grade products. Experience in building large scale, compute intensive stateful applications. Ownership for Product and System architecture for multiple significant projects Expertise in coding, design, architecture, subsystems, and technology trends Excellent communication skills to communicate with executives, senior leadership on products, technology trends and customer issues. Compensation: The target salary range for this position is 266,050 - 396,000 USD. 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, 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. At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Equal Opportunity Employer: NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. Why You'll Thrive at NetApp At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment-you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure. NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security. Our culture We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed-they drive everything we do. If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. Apply now. Submitting an Application To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application. AI Disclosure For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support-rather than replace-human decision-making.
