Principal Software Engineer

About the Position

NetApp is uniquely positioned in the industry, partnering with major hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, and Azure), which presents a new challenge for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and drives innovation in Cloud Fundamentals. The Cloud Storage team is embarking on a new charter to address these challenges for cloud-native applications, aiming to simplify customer operations and be a key differentiator. Bring your experience and expertise to the new frontier, to build best-in-class SaaS applications, woven with architecture and design that are deployed across multiple hyperscalers. If you enjoy working on challenging system problems covering different areas of the tech stack, this might be the right opportunity for you!

As a Principal Software Engineer in NetApp’s Cloud Storage organization, you will lead and execute our most challenging and complex projects. You will have the opportunity to work on AWS, Azure, and GCP, using cutting-edge technology to provide innovative solutions. You will be responsible for system architecture, decomposing complex problems into simple solutions, understanding system interdependencies and limitations, cloud architectures, performance, scalability, bringing engineering best practices, and testing methods to the team.

This role requires travel to our India office 1-2 times per year.

Responsibilities

• Lead and execute challenging and complex projects.
• Work on AWS, Azure, and GCP.
• Provide end-to-end architecture on major initiatives.
• Design distributed systems, cloud-native products, and scale them to production.
• Provide detailed architecture and set technical direction while contributing to implementation, design, and code reviews.
• Make high-quality technical decisions under ambiguity.
• Work effectively across engineering, product, and leadership.

Requirements

• 15+ years in software development.
• 7+ years hands-on with fault-tolerant, highly scalable cloud architectures, including service-oriented and cloud-native services (FaaS, PaaS) on at least one hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Ability to provide end-to-end architecture on major initiatives.
• Design distributed systems, cloud-native products, and scale them to production.
• Proactive and self-driven, with strong technical judgment and influential skills.
• Expertise in providing detailed architecture and set technical direction while contributing to implementation, design, and code reviews.
• Strong experience in one or more of Node.js, Python, Java, Go, or Rust. Front-end experience (TypeScript, React, or Angular) is a plus.
• Work effectively across engineering, product, and leadership.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage with customers, stakeholders, and the engineering community.

Preferred Qualifications

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

Education

• Bachelor's degree in a technical area of study: engineering disciplines.
• Master's degree in a technical field such as engineering, software development, preferred with less additional experience stated above.

We Offer

The target salary range for this position is $220,000-356,000. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off (PTO), various Leave options, Performance-Based Incentives, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s), with all offerings subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.

About the Company

NetApp is a global, cloud-led, data-focused company that helps organizations take full advantage of their data. We are uniquely placed in the industry, partnering with major hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, and Azure), which adds a new challenge for Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) and drives innovation in the space of Cloud Fundamentals.