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. At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers who reward initiative, impact, and ownership.

About the Role

This Distinguished Engineer role is a technical leadership position designed to 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 is not a consulting role; you will be a hands-on practitioner expected to earn the respect of the engineering community by keeping your skills sharp.

You will collaborate with other technical leaders and software engineers to drive innovation and engineering excellence. Your day-to-day will involve solving 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. You will design fault-tolerant, highly available, and low-latency control plane architectures for cloud-native services. At least 40% of your time will be devoted to producing tangible artifacts, including vision statements, design documents, and source code.

Our Culture

We embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. Most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life.

Hiring Process

Candidates will be evaluated on their ability to functionally decompose complex problems into simple solutions and their capacity to balance conflicting stakeholder objectives while demonstrating empathy with customer needs. The process includes assessing technical depth in distributed systems, cloud-native operations, and modern programming languages, as well as the ability to mentor senior engineers and contribute to intellectual property through patents.

Equal Opportunity

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.