Principal Engineer, Cloud Storage
Company: NetApp
Location: Boulder
Posted on: February 1, 2025
Job Description:
Job SummaryAs a Principal Engineer in NetApp's Cloud Storage
organization, you will lead and execute our most challenging and
complex projects. You will be responsible for decomposing complex
problems into simple solutions, understanding system
interdependencies and limitations, and possessing expert knowledge
in Data Storage, disaster recovery (Ex: ONTAP), cloud
architectures, performance, scalability, enterprise system
architecture, engineering best practices, and testing methods.In
addition to your technical expertise, you will also be responsible
for partnering with technical and product leaders of all major
cloud providers, writing/reviewing code, mentoring and developing
others, influencing multiple NetApp teams, and making critical
technical decisions. You will be crucial in helping NetApp stay
ahead of the curve and deliver innovative solutions to our
customers.You are expected to have a strong technical point of
view, work with our internal and external partners, and earn their
trust with empathy. Your ability to communicate clearly with the
top leaders of multiple high-profile companies and use data to
defend your decisions will be crucial for this role.Key
Responsibilities
- Lead design, architecture, implementation, and delivery of
complex software engineering projects in the cloud storage.
- Serve as a technical leader on demanding, cross-functional
engineering projects.
- Functionally decompose complex problems into simple,
straightforward solutions and fully understand system
interdependencies and limitations.
- Understand NetApp's existing systems, their interdependencies,
and limitations.
- Possess expert knowledge in Storage and disaster recovery (Ex:
ONTAP), modern cloud architectures, microservices architecture,
Kubernetes, Golang/C# or another major object-oriented programming
language, performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture,
and engineering best practices. Influence multiple internal teams
and external partners without authority and with strong empathy.
(This is an IC role).
- Assist in the career development of others, actively coach and
mentor other senior engineers on advanced technical issues.
- Contribute to building intellectual property through
patents.Job Requirements
- 15+ years of experience in software/systems engineering.
- 5+ years of experience in data management systems & storage
platforms for managing and storing data across various workloads
and environments. (Ex: NetApp's ONTAP or similar systems).
- 5+ years of expert-level hands-on experience in highly scalable
cloud architectures, including service-oriented architectures,
cloud-native (FAAS, PAAS), and cloud storage services (NOSQL and
relational DB, etc.).
- Excellent experience building fault-tolerant and high-scale
distributed architecture on one of the major cloud providers.
- Proactive and self-driven, with strong technical judgment and
influential skills.
- Ability to influence Directors, VPs, and SVP as a critical
technical adviser.
- Expertise in providing both architectural guidance and detailed
technical direction.
- Excellent communication and writing skills, with the ability to
effectively engage with customers, stakeholders, and the
engineering community.EducationBachelor of Science in Computer
Science or Electrical Engineering; or equivalent experience.
Masters preferred.
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Keywords: NetApp, Boulder , Principal Engineer, Cloud Storage, Engineering , Boulder, Colorado
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