Software Engineering Manager

Job Summary

Data is the currency of business in the digital era. NetApp is the data authority, helping customers leverage and manage their data wherever it resides – in the cloud, in their data centers, or anywhere data flows. Engineers at NetApp help transform the way customers utilize their dynamic, diverse, and distributed information. They are allowing doctors to save lives with deep data analytics shared with medical experts around the world, helping automotive engineers improve autonomous vehicle navigation with artificial intelligence, enabling scientists to monitor and identify environmental hazards through deep image analysis, and providing companies the ability to expand their businesses in yet unimagined ways. 

By joining NetApp, you can take part in transforming how data is changing the world. ONTAP is the #1 Storage Operating System in the world, managing hundreds of Exabytes of customers information. We have more than 30,000 customers today that rely on us to be the data authority. Take part in the transformation that is changing how we work and play daily. 

As a member of the Core File Services Group (CFSG) at NetApp, you will be part of a team of highly talented people who are experts at industry standard storage protocols, caching, data management and data protection solutions. CFSG contributes to the core technology stack that makes NetApp an industry leader in the NAS business. The feature rich protocols stacks combined with anti-ransomware, data security and data availability technologies provide class leading features and value to our customers. As a result, our technology is used in mission critical applications across the world. We also provide value to our customers through our integrations with all the major hyperscalers. You will be part of a team whose work directly impacts the trust our customers have placed in Netapp solutions for their reliability, performance, scalability, and availability. 

An ideal candidate for this position will be driven to produce results, collaborative, curious and creative. He/she strives to excel in their day-to-day work and will continue to produce high quality results without anyone looking over their shoulders. They will bring broad experience across multiple domains including embedded systems, operating systems, storage technologies and distributed systems. 

Job Requirements

The individual will be responsible for non-routine and unstructured tasks, requiring creative solutions with more inter-dependencies and with processes that are less defined. He/she will be responsible for the business outcomes the functional area they own feeds into. They will ensure the right outcomes by providing the appropriate oversight of all project deliverables, managing stakeholders, influencing product roadmaps and influencing key technical decisions. He/she will own building the team, coaching and developing the skill sets of the team to help execute on the required business outcomes. They will continuously review processes and methodologies to improve operational efficiency and development velocity. They will engage with customers on escalations and ensure that there is continuous improvement in all areas under their purview to deliver maximum value to our customers. 

• At least 8 years of related experience 
• Demonstrated ability to build and manage multiple teams including senior engineers 
• Hands on experience with the systems engineering domain requiring concepts such as computer architecture, operating systems, file systems, networking, algorithms & data structures 
• Experience contributing to software development projects with C/C++ in LINUX/UNIX environments 
• Clear understanding of the software product development cycle 
• Experience with developing budgets and predicting project costs 
• Strong oral and written communication skills