3 days ago
Bengaluru, IndiaSenior
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year technical roadmap and architecture strategy for on-premise platforms.
- Make and defend organization-wide architectural trade-offs involving performance, reliability, cost, and manufacturability.
- Set strategy, standards, and guardrails for AI/GenAI use across engineering, including RAG, agents, evaluation, accuracy, cost, and data privacy.
- Drive architecture decisions for networking, OS internals, storage, hardware interfaces, and platform design.
- Resolve the organization’s most difficult network-layer, OS, and root-cause investigation issues.
- Set automation strategy and reliability standards for the broader engineering team.
- Use Python, C, and C++ hands-on to prototype and validate architectural decisions.
- Lead architecture reviews across multiple teams and mentor senior and staff-level engineers.
- Align software, firmware, hardware, and manufacturing organizations around shared technical direction.
- Represent the company in customer escalations, partner discussions, industry forums, and technical leadership communications.
Requirements
- At least 10 years of related experience is stated; the posting also contains a separate statement requiring at least 8 years.
- Authoritative expertise in TCP/IP, computer networks, NFS, SMB, iSCSI, and Fibre Channel.
- Deep expertise in Linux and Unix kernel and networking internals, FreeBSD, OS booting, BIOS/UEFI, and GRUB.
- Expertise in NAS, SAN, NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics, PCIe, Ethernet, RAID, SSDs, I/O Module design, and shelf/enclosure architecture.
- Hands-on fluency in Python, C, and C++.
- Experience setting technical strategy, leading architecture reviews, mentoring senior and staff engineers, and aligning cross-functional engineering organizations.
- Experience with RAG pipelines, agentic automation, model evaluation frameworks, prompt/response reliability, and organizational AI/GenAI adoption.
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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.