21 days ago
Wallisellen, SwitzerlandSenior
Responsibilities
- Serve as technical lead or primary design owner for projects or components from design through delivery.
- Design and build complex, high-quality software systems with responsibility for correctness, performance, and maintainability.
- Author design documents and RFCs and participate in design reviews.
- Write production code and review complex designs and pull requests.
- Translate product and business requirements into technical designs with managers, technical leads, and stakeholders.
- Mentor less experienced engineers and support the team’s technical quality bar.
- Identify and resolve technical debt, scalability limits, reliability gaps, and other technical risks.
- Help enforce best practices in system design, testing, observability, and operational excellence.
- Evaluate new technologies, frameworks, and engineering patterns for adoption.
Requirements
- 7+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including exposure to large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience serving as a technical lead or primary design owner for a project or team-level initiative.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Working knowledge of agentic engineering using local or frontier models.
- Exposure to distributed storage systems.
- Strong system design and software architecture ownership experience.
- Ability to communicate technical trade-offs and build consensus across teams.
- Experience with data processing, analytics, or AI/ML systems.
- Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to technical quality standards.
- Preferred: experience with distributed database systems.
- Preferred: experience training and deploying AI models.
- Preferred: experience with GPU workloads and accelerated-computing infrastructure.
About NetApp
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.