Job Description

About NetApp
NetApp is the intelligent data infrastructure company, turning a world of disruption into opportunity for every customer. No matter the data type, workload or environment, we help our customers identify and realize new business possibilities. And it all starts with our people.

If this sounds like something you want to be part of, NetApp is the place for you. You can help bring new ideas to life, approaching each challenge with fresh eyes. We embrace diversity and openness because it's in our DNA. Of course, you won't be doing it alone. At NetApp, we're all about asking for help when we need it, collaborating with others, and partnering across the organization - and beyond.

"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
The Core Software team is a high-performance engineering team responsible for building the fundamental software to manage the ONTAP software product. This is a wonderful opportunity to work on a high-powered team delivering an industry changing product within an extremely high growth sector of the tech industry. Feature rich software stack combined with ONTAP – The storage operating system of NetApp with its rich data management capabilities has tremendous value to our customers and are used in mission critical applications across the world. Focus will be on enhancements to existing products as well as new product development. This role is within the Research and Development function whose overall focus is on technology advances, competitive market and customer workload requirements, product cost and time-to-market, and product quality. This position requires an individual to be broad-thinking and systems-focused, creative, team-oriented, technologically savvy, able to lead large cross-functional teams, and driven to produce results.

Job Requirements

• Lead a team of high performing software development and test engineers
• Contribute expertise to software architecture and design of distributed system features
• Facilitate product design, implementation and support, including getting hands-on as needed
• Provide coaching and career development for members of your team
• Responsible for ensuring the timely and high-quality release of modules in ONTAP
• Work closely with product management and customers to build the best product
• Take responsibility for results including costs, methods and staffing
• Strong oral and written communication skills are essential, Clear understanding of the product development cycle and project management
• Experience with developing budgets and predicting project costs, Demonstrated ability to manage professional level employees
• Ability to understand and apply new technologies
• Experience in hands-on systems software development
• Experience with the systems engineering domain requiring concepts such as computer architecture, operating systems, file systems, networking, algorithms & data structures
• Experience in managing software development projects with C/C++ in LINUX/UNIX environments
• Experience with storage technologies or cloud technologies is a plus

Education

• BTech in Computer Science,or a related field required with a minimum of 10-15 years of related experience of which at least 5+ years of experience as a people manager is required.