
This Distinguished Engineer role serves as a technical leadership position within NetApp's Cloud business unit, focusing on building and scaling architecture for mission-critical, multi-cloud data infrastructure. Key responsibilities include designing fault-tolerant, low-latency control plane architectures, establishing modern CI/CD and QA frameworks for large-scale distributed systems, and mentoring senior engineering teams. The position requires hands-on coding to solve complex engineering challenges while driving innovation in areas like availability, reliability, and performance. The role is appealing due to the opportunity to work with cutting-edge open-source technologies, contribute to intellectual property through patents, and operate within a culture that rewards bold thinking and ownership. The position offers a hybrid work arrangement that balances in-office collaboration with flexibility, supporting a mission to transform how organizations leverage data across major cloud providers.















