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. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins.

Our Culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it.

About the Role

This is a technical leadership opportunity to build and scale architecture and experience across multiple cloud environments. As a Distinguished Engineer, you will be a hands-on practitioner, not a consultant. You will collaborate with other technical leaders and software engineers to drive innovation and engineering excellence, focusing on solving the most complex engineering challenges in service fundamentals like availability, reliability, performance, and scalability.

You will design fault-tolerant, highly available, and low-latency control plane architectures for cloud-native services while improving developer velocity through modern CI/CD practices. To earn the respect of the engineering community and keep your skills sharp, it is expected that you will devote at least 40% of your time to producing tangible artifacts such as vision statements, design documents, and source code. You will act as a force multiplier, fostering a culture of learning and experimentation while helping to balance conflicting stakeholder objectives with empathy for customer needs.

Hiring Process

We are looking for candidates ready to own every moment. If you are prepared to bring your expertise in high-scale, geo-distributed applications to our team, we invite you to apply. The recruitment process will include discussions regarding the hybrid working environment, which is designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees.

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, genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.