About Urban Sky Urban Sky is a venture-backed aerospace startup on a mission to pioneer humanity's routine, easy access to the stratosphere and the value locked within it. We design, build, operate, and sell stratospheric balloon systems. The data we collect supports a wide range of applications, from real-time wildfire monitoring to urban mapping. Our technology is also employed by government customers including the Department of War (DoW), NASA, and others. Urban Sky sends flight vehicles to the stratosphere on a weekly basis. Our team consists of engineers, makers, developers, and doers who believe in the power of human potential when passion meets utility within a small, supportive team. At Urban Sky we strive to create a team culture grounded in candor, inclusion, respect and empowerment. We aim to build the next chapter of stratospheric history in Denver and Texas and are seeking self-starting, open-minded, and hard-working team members. Position Overview / Onsite / Full-time / Salaried Urban Sky is seeking a Senior Embedded Imaging Software Engineer to own the firmware, imaging pipeline, and data-movement stack behind our electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) payloads - from the sensor at the focal plane to the command-and-control link on the ground. You'll write the firmware that drives our cameras and edge compute, own the CUDA image processing pipeline that turns raw pixels into clean, calibrated, geo-tagged imagery, and architect the high-rate data paths and C2 infrastructure that connect the payload to the customer. Your goal: deliver clean, honest imagery. Much of this work proves out in the field - at events, exercises, and customer engagements. Key Responsibilities: Own embedded firmware for our EO and IR payloads: sensor bring-up, driver development, and edge compute on NVIDIA Jetson platforms Integrate cameras and sensors over PCIe, MIPI/CSI, and USB, and develop board-support packages for custom carrier boards, system-on-modules, and companion microcontrollers Own the L0 image processing pipeline running in CUDA at the edge: debayering, white balance, gamma, and camera/lens correction - applied to raw frames before any codec Own IR-specific processing: non-uniformity correction (NUC), bad-pixel replacement, and radiometric calibration Develop multi-frame super-resolution and related computational imaging capabilities Implement imagery metadata (KLV/MISB) so every frame carries accurate pointing, position, and time Architect high-throughput data paths across the vehicle - PCIe as a first-class specialty - and the routing infrastructure that carries imagery, telemetry, and C2 across satellite, tactical-radio, and IP links Optimize for latency, throughput, and determinism, and balance pipeline compute against onboard ML workloads sharing the same CUDA resources Integrate payload firmware with the gimbal and motion-control stack, consuming pointing and autonomy commands from the broader payload software architecture Develop and maintain optical calibrations for our EO/IR payloads - lens distortion modeling, vignetting/flat-field correction, and MTF/sharpness characterization - so imagery quality is measured and repeatable across cameras and flights Implement motion and temporal compensation (frame-to-frame registration, stabilization, and temporal filtering) to maximize effective image quality from a moving platform Qualifications: Experience building end-to-end camera/imaging systems, from sensor to downstream consumer Working experience with image processing pipelines (debayering, calibration, correction) and CUDA or GPU-accelerated processing Experience with optical calibration and characterization - distortion modeling, vignetting correction, MTF/sharpness measurement - and building the correction steps that apply them in a processing pipeline Familiarity with motion/temporal compensation techniques (registration, stabilization, temporal filtering) for imaging from moving platforms 5+ years developing embedded firmware in C/C++ for embedded Linux and/or bare-metal/RTOS systems Hands-on experience shipping on NVIDIA Jetson or comparable embedded Linux/SoC platforms Deep experience moving high-rate data over PCIe (driver, DMA, endpoint/root-complex level) Solid grounding in networking, data routing, and command-and-control infrastructure Strong hardware debugging skills and comfort working from schematics Nice-to-Haves / Preferred Skills: IR/thermal imaging experience, including NUC and radiometric calibration GStreamer, V4L2, or other imaging/video pipeline frameworks Computational imaging techniques (super-resolution, stacking, HDR) Defense imagery and metadata standards (MISB/KLV, STANAG); defense or mission-critical development experience FPGA workflows or high-speed serial interfaces (SerDes, Aurora, MIPI) Experience with optics and optical hardware Experience with multi-sensor and multispectral fusion - co-registering and combining imagery across sensors and bands into fused data products, in partnership with downstream data teams Requirements: Must be US Citizen or Permanent Resident Must be able to obtain and maintain a US security clearance (an active clearance is a plus) Must be located near Denver, CO or willing to relocate; role is on-site at our Denver headquarters (4800 Race St) Travel expected to support field events, exercises, and customer engagements Benefits: Stock Options Medical, Vision and Dental Flexible PTO Cell Phone Bill Stipend Urban Sky is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. The pay range for this role is: 140,000 - 180,000 USD per year(Denver CO HQ) PI5810b4bf9b36-6921
09/28/2026
Full time
About Urban Sky Urban Sky is a venture-backed aerospace startup on a mission to pioneer humanity's routine, easy access to the stratosphere and the value locked within it. We design, build, operate, and sell stratospheric balloon systems. The data we collect supports a wide range of applications, from real-time wildfire monitoring to urban mapping. Our technology is also employed by government customers including the Department of War (DoW), NASA, and others. Urban Sky sends flight vehicles to the stratosphere on a weekly basis. Our team consists of engineers, makers, developers, and doers who believe in the power of human potential when passion meets utility within a small, supportive team. At Urban Sky we strive to create a team culture grounded in candor, inclusion, respect and empowerment. We aim to build the next chapter of stratospheric history in Denver and Texas and are seeking self-starting, open-minded, and hard-working team members. Position Overview / Onsite / Full-time / Salaried Urban Sky is seeking a Senior Embedded Imaging Software Engineer to own the firmware, imaging pipeline, and data-movement stack behind our electro-optical (EO) and infrared (IR) payloads - from the sensor at the focal plane to the command-and-control link on the ground. You'll write the firmware that drives our cameras and edge compute, own the CUDA image processing pipeline that turns raw pixels into clean, calibrated, geo-tagged imagery, and architect the high-rate data paths and C2 infrastructure that connect the payload to the customer. Your goal: deliver clean, honest imagery. Much of this work proves out in the field - at events, exercises, and customer engagements. Key Responsibilities: Own embedded firmware for our EO and IR payloads: sensor bring-up, driver development, and edge compute on NVIDIA Jetson platforms Integrate cameras and sensors over PCIe, MIPI/CSI, and USB, and develop board-support packages for custom carrier boards, system-on-modules, and companion microcontrollers Own the L0 image processing pipeline running in CUDA at the edge: debayering, white balance, gamma, and camera/lens correction - applied to raw frames before any codec Own IR-specific processing: non-uniformity correction (NUC), bad-pixel replacement, and radiometric calibration Develop multi-frame super-resolution and related computational imaging capabilities Implement imagery metadata (KLV/MISB) so every frame carries accurate pointing, position, and time Architect high-throughput data paths across the vehicle - PCIe as a first-class specialty - and the routing infrastructure that carries imagery, telemetry, and C2 across satellite, tactical-radio, and IP links Optimize for latency, throughput, and determinism, and balance pipeline compute against onboard ML workloads sharing the same CUDA resources Integrate payload firmware with the gimbal and motion-control stack, consuming pointing and autonomy commands from the broader payload software architecture Develop and maintain optical calibrations for our EO/IR payloads - lens distortion modeling, vignetting/flat-field correction, and MTF/sharpness characterization - so imagery quality is measured and repeatable across cameras and flights Implement motion and temporal compensation (frame-to-frame registration, stabilization, and temporal filtering) to maximize effective image quality from a moving platform Qualifications: Experience building end-to-end camera/imaging systems, from sensor to downstream consumer Working experience with image processing pipelines (debayering, calibration, correction) and CUDA or GPU-accelerated processing Experience with optical calibration and characterization - distortion modeling, vignetting correction, MTF/sharpness measurement - and building the correction steps that apply them in a processing pipeline Familiarity with motion/temporal compensation techniques (registration, stabilization, temporal filtering) for imaging from moving platforms 5+ years developing embedded firmware in C/C++ for embedded Linux and/or bare-metal/RTOS systems Hands-on experience shipping on NVIDIA Jetson or comparable embedded Linux/SoC platforms Deep experience moving high-rate data over PCIe (driver, DMA, endpoint/root-complex level) Solid grounding in networking, data routing, and command-and-control infrastructure Strong hardware debugging skills and comfort working from schematics Nice-to-Haves / Preferred Skills: IR/thermal imaging experience, including NUC and radiometric calibration GStreamer, V4L2, or other imaging/video pipeline frameworks Computational imaging techniques (super-resolution, stacking, HDR) Defense imagery and metadata standards (MISB/KLV, STANAG); defense or mission-critical development experience FPGA workflows or high-speed serial interfaces (SerDes, Aurora, MIPI) Experience with optics and optical hardware Experience with multi-sensor and multispectral fusion - co-registering and combining imagery across sensors and bands into fused data products, in partnership with downstream data teams Requirements: Must be US Citizen or Permanent Resident Must be able to obtain and maintain a US security clearance (an active clearance is a plus) Must be located near Denver, CO or willing to relocate; role is on-site at our Denver headquarters (4800 Race St) Travel expected to support field events, exercises, and customer engagements Benefits: Stock Options Medical, Vision and Dental Flexible PTO Cell Phone Bill Stipend Urban Sky is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. The pay range for this role is: 140,000 - 180,000 USD per year(Denver CO HQ) PI5810b4bf9b36-6921
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.
09/28/2026
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.
09/28/2026
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.
09/28/2026
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.
09/28/2026
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.
