Hiring: Director, Software Engineer Company: NetApp Location: San Jose, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 12:31:40 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, Agile, CI/CD, Microsoft Excel, Product Management About the job Experience: •12+ years of software engineering experience. •5+ years of people leadership experience managing managers and/or multiple engineering teams. Required Skills: •The Director of Software Engineering leads NetApp’s Production Engineering organization, responsible for the reliability, security, and cost efficiency of NetApp’s ONTAP-based cloud products. •This role partners with Product Management, Cloud Architecture, and external hyperscaler teams (Google, AWS, Microsoft) to shift the organization from traditional operations to Production Engineering — replacing manual toil with automation. •Strategic Leadership •Define and execute the Production Engineering strategy — reliability, automation, observability, and cost efficiency — aligned to cloud platform objectives. •Set SLA/SLO and error-budget policy; own the roadmap for shifting operational toil into software. •Anticipate scale, security, and reliability risks across a growing multi-region cloud footprint and drive mitigation. •Own incident management, on-call operations, escalation management, and operational readiness reviews (ORR) across the org. •Drive CI/CD ownership — release automation, build automation, deployment governance — to reduce release risk and increase deployment velocity. Qualifications: •Strong knowledge of software architecture, cloud technologies, distributed systems, DevOps, and Agile methodologies. •Proven ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholder groups. •Strong hands-on engineering background — able to architect, design, and write code, not just manage people who do. •Strong financial and operational management experience, including resource planning and budget accountability. •Has personally built observability, CI/CD, security, or data-plane/control-plane systems at scale. •Kernel-space software engineering experience — device drivers, filesystems, or OS-level storage stacks — beyond application-layer development. •Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, or related technical field. Compensation: •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!