NetApp

Principal Engineer

NetApp
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2 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$228k - $339k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Own Active IQ’s multi-year technical vision, target architecture, engineering standards, and technical direction.
  • Architect and deliver agentic AI and machine learning systems at NetApp fleet scale, including data, evaluation, and safety foundations.
  • Design and implement the platform’s most complex and highest-risk components through hands-on engineering, design reviews, and code reviews.
  • Identify and resolve systemic technical problems spanning multiple teams and organizations.
  • Evaluate emerging AI and cloud technologies, conduct proofs of concept, and make build, buy, or partner recommendations.
  • Partner with SRE and operations to achieve availability, performance, security, automation, and observability objectives.
  • Mentor senior and experienced engineers and elevate engineering practices without formal people-management responsibility.
  • Collaborate with product management, development, design, operations, customers, partners, and industry forums on architecture and technical strategy.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in the high-tech industry, including technical leadership at the principal or equivalent level.
  • Experience designing and developing agentic AI applications with technologies such as LangGraph, LangChain, Google ADK, Phoenix, Guardrails, and Mem0.
  • Strong experience with streaming and event-driven technologies such as Kafka.
  • Deep experience with relational, document, and vector databases, preferably including MongoDB.
  • Extensive cloud architecture and containerization experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
  • Experience with observability and application performance monitoring platforms such as Dynatrace and Splunk.
  • Strong Python development experience and experience building enterprise software and generative AI systems.
  • Experience building infrastructure for storage, compute, and databases, and operating scalable production cloud services.
  • Deep expertise in distributed systems, computer architecture, data structures, large-scale data processing, and production AI or machine learning systems.
  • Ability to make technical decisions in ambiguous environments, explain complex trade-offs, build consensus, and influence across organizations.
  • Strong understanding of on-premises and cloud infrastructure, reliability, and security practices for customer-facing services.
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytical, verbal, written communication, interpersonal, and collaboration skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field is required; a master’s or Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field is preferred.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package that may include health insurance, life insurance, retirement or pension plans, paid time off, leave options, performance-based incentives, employee stock purchase plans, and restricted stock units.
  • Benefits and offerings vary by country and region and are subject to local laws, regulations, and company policies.
NetApp

About NetApp

10,000+ employees

NetApp builds data storage and data management software and hardware for enterprises, including ONTAP-powered all-flash arrays and hybrid cloud services that integrate with AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It sells systems and subscriptions that support backup, disaster recovery, databases, and container/Kubernetes workloads. Founded in 1992 and headquartered in San Jose, California, NetApp is a public company listed on NASDAQ.

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