Distinguished Engineer, Security & Network Systems

San Jose, CA, US, 95128

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NetApp

Turn a world of disruption into opportunity with intelligent data infrastructure from NetApp. Realize seamless flexibility—any data, any workload, any environment—with the only enterprise-grade storage service embedded in the world’s biggest...

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About NetApp

 

We’re forward-thinking technology people with heart. We make our own rules, drive our own opportunities, and try to approach every challenge with fresh eyes. Of course, we can’t do it alone. We know when to ask for help, collaborate with others, and partner with smart people. We embrace diversity and openness because it’s in our DNA. We push limits and reward great ideas. What is your great idea?

"At NetApp, we fully embrace and advance a diverse, inclusive global workforce with a culture of belonging that leverages the backgrounds and perspectives of all employees, customers, partners, and communities to foster a higher performing organization." -George Kurian, CEO

Job Summary

Distinguished Engineers at NetApp are individual contributors who strive to be diverse in technology and provide technical leadership, architectural guidance and lead innovation to senior architects and engineers. They possess the ability to influence, collaborate, set technical direction, develop product roadmaps, and provide innovative solutions to solve architectural and business problems. Distinguished engineers impact the overall growth of the company by devising clear roadmaps to deliver next generation technology solutions to NetApp customers.

 

About Team
ONTAP SAN and Systems Group (OSSG) team drives the product strategy, roadmap, and engineering delivery for a few different technology areas at NetApp which includes Security, Networking Core OS / Kernel technologies, ONTAP SDN as well as NetApp’s block protocol components. You are responsible for developing innovative solutions and architecture across these components to develop a multi-tenanted, secure, compliant enterprise grade SAAS platform for customers to manage their data and storage. 
 
What Will You Do

  • Provide the technology strategy to accelerate the pace of innovation within NetApp and the Industry.
  • Define the roadmap and long-term vision, derived from key business technology and competitive trends.
  • Partners with Product management and engineering to define and deliver products.
  • Influence executive management and engineering to contribute towards a competitive portfolio. Demonstrate influence and act as a force multiplier across engineers at NetApp.
  • Mentor senior engineers and be the technical bar-raiser for senior and principal technical roles.
  • Evangelize both internally and externally for NetApp products you own and become an industry recognized authority on related technologies and domain.

 

What You Will Bring

  • Globally recognized as domain expert in enterprise and cloud storage technologies, control and data plane architectures, core operating systems fundamentals including kernel programming, and design patterns.
  • Experience building Enterprise grade products and/or SAAS platforms.
  • Ownership for Product and System architecture for multiple significant projects
  • Expertise in coding, design, architecture, subsystems, and technology trends
  • Excellent communication skills to communicate with executives, senior leadership on products, technology trends and customer issues.
  • Expertise in building highly available and performant Enterprise and SAAS platforms 
  • Experience in building compliant, secure and compute intensive data services.

Job Requirements

  • 15+ years' experience and regarded as a strategic problem solver across a broad set of constituents across your company and/or industry.
  • Experience in building highly available and performant Enterprise grade products and/or SAAS platforms.
  • Extensive technical, market and business expertise, storage, or networking industry.
  • Ability to get consensus and set technical direction across a large engineering organization.
  • Experience with networking and security protocols and implementation of high-speed, high scale, data planes that carry critical customer traffic.
  • Experience with virtualizing network and security functions in a hybrid on-premises and cloud environment, including AWS, Azure, GCP, VMWare, OpenStack, etc.
  • Understanding of core storage protocols such as iSCSI, fibre Channel (FC), FCoE, NFS, SMB.
  • RESTFUL Application Service Architecture, API management services, 3-layered API approach (API gateways, service mesh and load balancers).
  • Deep experience with modern application development methodologies (CI/CD, Agile, DevOps).
  • Experience in building multi-tenanted micro services and deployment, provisioning, and orchestration. (K8, Docker).
  • Strong knowledge of security (Encryption, key management, compliance), web and backend technologies.

Education

  • Typically requires 15 years of relevant experience.
  • A Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science; or equivalent experience.  Masters preferred.

 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

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 or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification. 

 

Did you know…
Statistics show women apply to jobs only when they’re 100% qualified. But no one is 100% qualified. We encourage you to shift the trend and apply anyway! We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Why NetApp?

In a world full of generalists, NetApp is a specialist. No one knows how to elevate the world’s biggest clouds like NetApp. We are data-driven and empowered to innovate. Trust, integrity, and teamwork all combine to make a difference for our customers, partners, and communities. 
 
We expect a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time off per year to volunteer with their favorite organizations.  We provide comprehensive medical, dental, wellness, and vision plans for you and your family.  We offer educational assistance, legal services, and access to discounts. We also offer financial savings programs to help you plan for your future.  
 
If you run toward knowledge and problem-solving, join us. 

 

USA and Canada Residents Only:

The base salary hiring wage range for this position which the Company reasonably and in good faith expects to pay for the position in the specified geographic areas or locations, is [$235,170 Min} - {$330,000 Max].  Final compensation will be dependent on various factors relevant to the position and candidate such as geographical location, candidate qualifications, certifications, relevant job-related work experience, education, skillset and other relevant business and organizational factors, consistent with applicable law.  In addition, the position may include some of the following comprehensive benefits such Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401(K), Paid Time off (PTO), sick time, leave of absence as per the FMLA and other relevant leave laws, Company bonus/commission, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s).

* Salary range is an estimate based on our InfoSec / Cybersecurity Salary Index 💰

Tags: Agile APIs AWS Azure CI/CD Cloud Compliance Computer Science DevOps Docker Encryption GCP OpenStack SaaS Strategy VMware

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Country: United States
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