Senior Engineer, AI BU

About the role

As a Senior Engineer in NetApp's AI BU, you are a strong, trusted technical contributor — designing and building complex systems within your team while beginning to extend your influence beyond it. You bring deep hands-on expertise to the hardest problems your team faces, are trusted to lead the design and delivery of significant components or projects, and mentor engineers around you. You retain a hands-on, individual-contributor focus.

Responsibilities

• Serve as tech lead and/or primary design owner for a project or component within AI BU, driving it from design through delivery.
• Design and build complex, high-quality software systems, owning technical correctness, performance, and maintainability within your area.
• Author design docs/RFCs for your project or team and participate in design reviews for adjacent teams.
• Write production code and review the most complex designs and PRs within your team.
• Partner with your manager/tech lead and product stakeholders to translate requirements into technical designs.
• Mentor and support the growth of less experienced engineers on your team.
• Identify and help resolve technical risk within your area of ownership — technical debt, scalability limits, reliability gaps.
• Contribute to and help enforce best practices in system design, testing, observability, and operational excellence within your team.
• Stay current on new technologies, frameworks, and patterns, and propose adoption where it adds value.

Requirements

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including some exposure to large-scale distributed systems.
• Demonstrated experience as technical lead or primary design owner on a project or team-level initiative.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Working knowledge of using agentic engineering using local and/or frontier models.
• Exposure to Distributed Storage Systems.
• Ability to build consensus and communicate technical trade-offs within your team and to adjacent teams.
• Solid system design skills, with experience owning the architecture of a component or service.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills — able to author design docs and clearly present technical trade-offs.
• Experience with data processing, analytics, or AI/ML systems.
• Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a team's technical quality bar.
• Familiarity with CI/CD infrastructure for production deployments.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Distributed Database Systems.
• Experience with training and deploying AI models.
• Experience with GPU workloads and accelerated computing infrastructure.

Pay

The target salary range for this position is 170,000 - 253,000 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Retirement or Pension Plans
• Paid Time Off
• Various Leave options
• Performance-Based Incentives
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Restricted stocks (RSUs)

Benefits may vary by country and region, and further details will be provided as part of the recruitment process.

Schedule

At NetApp, we embrace a hybrid working environment designed to strengthen connection, collaboration, and culture for all employees. This means that most roles will have some level of in-office and/or in-person expectations, which will be shared during the recruitment process.