Distinguished Engineer

About 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. 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.

We are on a path to $10B, and we need passionate teams to tackle real-world challenges and see their impact in how customers transform and grow. Here, you will collaborate with diverse groups, bring curiosity and creativity to every moment, and make the next move your best one.

Our Culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. Our culture rewards initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. At NetApp, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do. We embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees, with most roles having some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations.

About the Role

This is a technical leadership role for a Distinguished Engineer who will build and scale architecture and experience across multiple cloud environments. You will leverage open-source technologies to deliver platform-as-a-service solutions that power mission-critical workloads. This position is not for consultants; Distinguished Engineers are hands-on practitioners who earn the respect of the engineering community by keeping their skills sharp.

You will solve the most complex engineering challenges in service fundamentals—availability, reliability, performance, and scalability—while improving developer velocity through modern CI/CD practices, canary deployments, and real-user telemetry-based testing. A key focus will be designing fault-tolerant, highly available, and low-latency control plane architectures for cloud-native services.

To maintain technical excellence, at least 40% of your time will be devoted to producing tangible artifacts, including vision statements, design documents, and source code. You will act as a force multiplier, fostering a culture of learning and experimentation while advocating for best engineering, QA, and operational practices across the business unit.

Hiring Process

We are looking for candidates ready to own every moment. If you are prepared to bring your drive to NetApp, your journey begins here. Please apply directly to submit your candidacy for this role.

Equal Opportunity

NetApp is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and 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, genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.