Director, Software Engineer
NetApp · Posted Oct 1
Hybrid cloud data services, enterprise storage, and cloud operations solutions
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About the role
The NetApp AI business unit builds enterprise-grade storage and data infrastructure services, including storage natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, supporting workloads from traditional applications to enterprise AI. As Director of Software Development, this role leads and scales a high-performing engineering organization delivering innovative large-scale services for both cloud and on-premises environments. The director sets technical vision, mentors senior engineering leaders, and drives execution across distributed systems, AI/ML, and cloud-native initiatives in collaboration with Cloud Storage and other business units.
What you will do
- Set strategic direction for software development and architecture across multiple teams and product lines.
- Lead and scale engineering teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical excellence.
- Drive end-to-end software development lifecycle in an Agile environment, from feature definition to production support.
- Establish and optimize development processes, operational metrics, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Mentor and develop senior engineering leaders, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and inclusion.
- Collaborate with executive leadership and cross-functional teams to define priorities and deliver customer-centric solutions.
- Champion operational excellence, including reliability, scalability, and performance of cloud-native services.
- Recruit and retain top talent, building diverse, high-performing teams.
- Advocate for best practices in engineering and operations across the organization.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 15 years of industry experience in software development, including large-scale distributed systems.
- 10 years of leadership experience, managing multiple engineering teams and senior technical leaders.
- Hands-on experience with Distributed Database Systems.
- Hands-on experience with training and deploying AI models
- Proven track record of delivering highly scalable, available, and low-latency cloud services.
- Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Well versed in using agentic engineering using local and/or frontier models
- Hands-on experience using Distributed Storage Systems.
- Strong business acumen and ability to influence strategy & direction at the executive level.
- Exceptional communication skills, capable of presenting complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Experience defining and implementing best practices for the full software development lifecycle.
- Expertise in performance, scalability, and enterprise system architecture.
- Experience with data processing, analytics, and AI/ML systems.
- Domain expertise on knowledge graphs, semantics and data modeling.
- Prior experience building CI/CD infrastructure for large-scale deployments.
- Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
Preferred qualifications
- Prior experience in storage systems is preferred but not mandatory.
Benefits and support
- Flexibility to balance professional ambition with personal life
About NetApp
NetApp, Inc. is an American data infrastructure and data management company that provides unified data storage, integrated data services, and hybrid multi-cloud operations solutions to enterprise customers. Founded in 1992, the company empowers global enterprises to manage applications and data seamlessly across on-premises environments and major public clouds. NetApp specializes in intelligent data infrastructure, cyber resilience, and AI-driven data optimization.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 11700 employees
- Founded
- 1992
- Location
- San Jose, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer
President
Chief Technology Officer
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