Job Description
**Job Summary**
As an Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of all aspects of software development, including operational metrics and production support for your team’s applications. You will define, manage, and continuously refine software and product development processes while collaborating closely with high‑performing engineers. In this role, you will lead day‑to‑day engineering activities, ensuring project plans, deliverables, and commitments are met. You will coach and mentor engineers to support their growth, enhance technical depth, and foster a high‑performance, inclusive culture. You will architect and deliver innovative technical designs aligned with broader product goals, while driving operational excellence through robust metrics, monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives. Additionally, you will promote a culture of learning and experimentation, advocating for best practices across engineering, QA, and operations. You will contribute to team and organizational growth by hiring, developing, and retaining top engineering talent. This role also requires close collaboration with managers and cross‑functional teams across NetApp and Google to build customer‑delighting software and drive innovation.
**Job Requirements**
+ Experience in software development.
+ Hands-on software development experience in object-oriented design, coding and highly scalable, available and low latency web services.
+ Experience driving new feature prioritization, development, and delivery.
+ Experience managing software engineering teams and developing technical direct reports (performance review communication, accountability, motivation/engagement)
+ Experience building services or applications in cloud-native architectures using either AWS, Azure, or Google cloud.
+ Proficient with Go or C++ or C#. Experience with Python / Java is added advantage.
+ Work closely with other software teams and other stake holders to make key decisions and provide status and iterative releases.
+ Ensure the timely and high-quality releases of new functionality.
+ Provide coaching and career development for members of your team. Be willing to work on additional tasks and responsibilities that will contribute towards team department and company goals.
+ Knowledge in infrastructure like hypervisor, Cloud Storage and experience with cloud services including Databases, Caching, Object and Block Storage, Scaling, Load Balancers, Networking etc.
+ Demonstrated ability to make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
+ Experience defining and championing best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
+ Expert in designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture).
+ Extensive experience building fault tolerant and high scale distributed architecture on one of the major cloud providers.
+ Prior experience architecting and building modern CD/CI infrastructure which works all the time for several hundred developers working on multitude of interconnected software deployment pipelines.
**Education**
+ A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, a master’s degree or equivalent experience is required.
+ A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience and experience in technical leadership, people management is required
+ Demonstrated ability to manage multiple critical projects
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We are all about helping customers turn challenges into business opportunity. It starts with bringing new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively to run better - but also to innovate. We tailor our approach to the customer's unique needs with a combination of fresh thinking and proven approaches.
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 laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, and any protected classification.
**Why NetApp?**
We are all about helping customers turn challenges into business opportunity. It starts with bringing new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively to run better - but also to innovate. We tailor our approach to the customer's unique needs with a combination of fresh thinking and proven approaches.
We enable a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time off each year to volunteer with their favourite organizations. We provide comprehensive benefits, including health care, life and accident plans, emotional support resources for you and your family, legal services, and financial savings programs to help you plan for your future. We support professional and personal growth through educational assistance and provide access to various discounts and perks to enhance your overall quality of life.
If you want to help us build knowledge and solve big problems, let's talk.
As an Engineering Manager, you will take ownership of all aspects of software development, including operational metrics and production support for your team’s applications. You will define, manage, and continuously refine software and product development processes while collaborating closely with high‑performing engineers. In this role, you will lead day‑to‑day engineering activities, ensuring project plans, deliverables, and commitments are met. You will coach and mentor engineers to support their growth, enhance technical depth, and foster a high‑performance, inclusive culture. You will architect and deliver innovative technical designs aligned with broader product goals, while driving operational excellence through robust metrics, monitoring, and continuous improvement initiatives. Additionally, you will promote a culture of learning and experimentation, advocating for best practices across engineering, QA, and operations. You will contribute to team and organizational growth by hiring, developing, and retaining top engineering talent. This role also requires close collaboration with managers and cross‑functional teams across NetApp and Google to build customer‑delighting software and drive innovation.
**Job Requirements**
+ Experience in software development.
+ Hands-on software development experience in object-oriented design, coding and highly scalable, available and low latency web services.
+ Experience driving new feature prioritization, development, and delivery.
+ Experience managing software engineering teams and developing technical direct reports (performance review communication, accountability, motivation/engagement)
+ Experience building services or applications in cloud-native architectures using either AWS, Azure, or Google cloud.
+ Proficient with Go or C++ or C#. Experience with Python / Java is added advantage.
+ Work closely with other software teams and other stake holders to make key decisions and provide status and iterative releases.
+ Ensure the timely and high-quality releases of new functionality.
+ Provide coaching and career development for members of your team. Be willing to work on additional tasks and responsibilities that will contribute towards team department and company goals.
+ Knowledge in infrastructure like hypervisor, Cloud Storage and experience with cloud services including Databases, Caching, Object and Block Storage, Scaling, Load Balancers, Networking etc.
+ Demonstrated ability to make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
+ Experience defining and championing best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
+ Expert in designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture).
+ Extensive experience building fault tolerant and high scale distributed architecture on one of the major cloud providers.
+ Prior experience architecting and building modern CD/CI infrastructure which works all the time for several hundred developers working on multitude of interconnected software deployment pipelines.
**Education**
+ A Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science, a master’s degree or equivalent experience is required.
+ A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience and experience in technical leadership, people management is required
+ Demonstrated ability to manage multiple critical projects
133249
We are all about helping customers turn challenges into business opportunity. It starts with bringing new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively to run better - but also to innovate. We tailor our approach to the customer's unique needs with a combination of fresh thinking and proven approaches.
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 laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, and any protected classification.
**Why NetApp?**
We are all about helping customers turn challenges into business opportunity. It starts with bringing new thinking to age-old problems, like how to use data most effectively to run better - but also to innovate. We tailor our approach to the customer's unique needs with a combination of fresh thinking and proven approaches.
We enable a healthy work-life balance. Our volunteer time off program is best in class, offering employees 40 hours of paid time off each year to volunteer with their favourite organizations. We provide comprehensive benefits, including health care, life and accident plans, emotional support resources for you and your family, legal services, and financial savings programs to help you plan for your future. We support professional and personal growth through educational assistance and provide access to various discounts and perks to enhance your overall quality of life.
If you want to help us build knowledge and solve big problems, let's talk.
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