Distinguished Engineer - Hyperscalers

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.

Our culture celebrates mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership, providing the flexibility to balance professional ambition with personal life. Here, 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.

About the Role

We are seeking a Distinguished Engineer to report into the Cloud Business Unit SVP & GM. This is a technical leadership role focused on building and scaling NetApp architecture and experience across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, where NetApp storage is first-party integrated.

In this position, you will tackle real-world challenges and collaborate with passionate teams to drive innovation and engineering excellence. You will work on the most complex engineering problems regarding service fundamentals (availability, reliability, performance, and scalability), developer velocity, and designing fault-tolerant, highly available, and low-latency control plane architectures.

Distinguished Engineers at NetApp are hands-on practitioners, not consultants. You are expected to devote 40% or more of your time to producing artifacts such as vision statements, design documents, and source code. You will serve as a role model for the NetApp technical community, fostering a culture of learning and experimentation while helping to balance conflicting stakeholder objectives with empathy for customer needs.

Hiring Process

Candidates will engage in a rigorous selection process designed to assess technical depth and cultural fit. The journey typically includes:

1. Initial Screening: A conversation to discuss your background and interest in the role.
2. Technical Deep Dive: An in-depth review of your architectural decisions and hands-on engineering capabilities.
3. System Design & Team Fit: A session focused on solving complex, ambiguous challenges and collaborating with the team.
4. Final Review & Offer: Final discussions regarding compensation and next steps.

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.