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Base Salary
$228k - $339k/yr
Responsibilities
- Architect and tech-lead major AI BU initiatives, owning system design end-to-end.
- Set technical direction and design standards across multiple engineering teams.
- Drive ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems to well-reasoned solutions and author design documents and RFCs.
- Write production code, review high-stakes designs and pull requests, and resolve difficult engineering problems.
- Partner with engineering and product leadership on technical roadmaps and architecture decisions.
- Mentor engineers and raise the technical quality bar without formal management authority.
- Identify and resolve architectural debt, scalability bottlenecks, reliability gaps, and other systemic technical risks.
- Represent AI BU engineering in cross-functional and executive technical reviews.
- Champion system design, testing, observability, and operational excellence practices.
- Evaluate and introduce technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns.
Requirements
- 12+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience serving as a technical lead or architect for multi-team or organization-wide initiatives.
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Experience with agentic engineering using local and/or frontier models.
- Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems and highly available, low-latency, large-scale services.
- Strong system design, architecture ownership, communication, consensus-building, and cross-team influence skills.
- Experience with data processing, analytics, AI/ML systems, mentoring, and CI/CD infrastructure for large-scale deployments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: expertise in knowledge graphs, semantics, data modeling, distributed database systems, AI model training and deployment, GPU workloads, and accelerated computing infrastructure.
- A master’s degree 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.
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.