Own Every Moment at NetApp
At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.
Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.
We are looking for a Software Engineering Manager to lead a high-performing engineering team building scalable APIs and data platforms. You will own delivery, technical direction, and team growth while driving AI-first engineering practices using automation and intelligent tooling to improve how we design, build, ship, and operate software. You will balance hands-on technical leadership with people management, operational excellence, and a strong focus on quality, reliability, and talent development.
Must Have
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10+ years of software engineering experience, including 2+ years in an engineering management or tech lead role with direct reports
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Strong hands-on background with Go and Python in production systems
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Experience building and operating APIs (REST and/or GraphQL) at scale
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Deep familiarity with PostgreSQL, Redis, and ClickHouse (or comparable OLTP + cache + OLAP stack)
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Proven experience with observability and monitoring using ELK and Grafana
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Practical understanding of Data Lakehouse concepts: data ingestion, warehousing/lake patterns, and analytics pipelines
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Track record of engineering excellence: code review culture, CI/CD, testing strategy, and technical debt management
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Demonstrated operational excellence: incident management, SLOs, production support, and reliability improvements
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Strong talent management skills: hiring, coaching, performance management, and team building
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Excellent communication and stakeholder management across technical and non-technical audiences
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Commitment to AI-first engineering: actively using AI tools to improve team productivity, quality, and decision-making
Nice to Have
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Experience with Agentic AI systems: autonomous agents, tool-use workflows, RAG pipelines, or AI orchestration in production
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Background in data engineering, streaming, or large-scale analytics platforms
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Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, containers, and infrastructure-as-code
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Familiarity with security, compliance, and data governance in regulated environments
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Prior experience scaling teams through hypergrowth or platform modernization initiatives
Engineering Leadership
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Lead, mentor, and grow a team of software engineers; set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and support career development
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Own team delivery: planning, prioritization, execution, and predictable release cadence
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Partner with Product, Design, and cross-functional stakeholders to translate business needs into technical roadmaps
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Guide architecture and technical decisions across services, APIs, and data systems
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Establish and uphold engineering standards: code quality, testing, documentation, and secure development practices
AI-First Engineering
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Champion AI-first engineering: embed AI-assisted development, testing, observability, and operations into day-to-day workflows
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Identify opportunities to automate repetitive work (code generation, reviews, incident triage, runbooks, data pipelines)
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Build team capability to adopt agentic and LLM-based tools responsibly, with clear guardrails for security, quality, and compliance
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Use data and AI-driven insights to improve velocity, defect rates, and operational efficiency
Technical Ownership
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Oversee design and delivery of REST/GraphQL APIs and backend services in Go and Python
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Guide data architecture across PostgreSQL, Redis, and ClickHouse for transactional, caching, and analytics workloads
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Support Data Lakehouse strategy: ingestion, modeling, governance, and analytics enablement
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Ensure systems are observable, debuggable, and production-ready using ELK and Grafana
Operational Excellence
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Define and track SLOs/SLIs, incident response, postmortems, and continuous improvement
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Drive reliability, performance, cost efficiency, and scalability across services and data platforms
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Own capacity planning, on-call practices, and operational runbooks
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Foster a blameless culture focused on learning and prevention
Talent Management
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Hire, onboard, and retain strong engineers; build diverse, inclusive, high-trust teams
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Conduct performance reviews, succession planning, and skills development
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Create an environment where engineers do their best work and grow into senior IC or leadership roles
Bachelor's degree (graduation) or above in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field
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.
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.
Why You'll Thrive at NetApp
At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.
NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.
Our culture
We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.
If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one. now.
Submitting an Application
To ensure a streamlined and fair hiring process for all candidates, our team only reviews applications submitted through our company website. This practice allows us to track, assess, and respond to applicants efficiently. Emailing our employees, recruiters, or Human Resources personnel directly will not influence your application.
AI Disclosure
For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.
