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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Engineer, AI BU - **Company:** NetApp, Inc. - **Location:** San Jose, CA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $170,000.0 - $253,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Adobe InDesign, Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Distributed Data Store, Distributed Systems, NetApp Applications, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Data Processing, Google Cloud, Technical Debt, Build Management, Production Code, Machine Learning Operations - **Published:** August 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://jobs.netapp.com/talentcommunity/apply/1415553300/?locale=en_US ## About the Role * 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, including some exposure to large-scale distributed systems. * Demonstrated experience as technical lead or primary design owner on a project or team-level initiative. * Hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. * Working knowledge of using agentic engineering using local and/or frontier models. * Exposure to Distributed Storage Systems. * Ability to build consensus and communicate technical trade-offs within your team and to adjacent teams. * Solid system design skills, with experience owning the architecture of a component or service. * Strong written and verbal communication skills - able to author design docs and clearly present technical trade-offs. * Experience with data processing, analytics, or AI/ML systems. * Experience mentoring engineers and contributing to a team's technical quality bar. * Familiarity with CI/CD infrastructure for production deployments. Preferred Qualifications * Experience with Distributed Database Systems. * Experience with training and deploying AI models. * Experience with GPU workloads and accelerated computing infrastructure. ## Description As a Senior Engineer in NetApp's AI BU, you are a strong, trusted technical contributor - designing and building complex systems within your team while beginning to extend your influence beyond it. You bring deep hands-on expertise to the hardest problems your team faces, are trusted to lead the design and delivery of significant components or projects, and mentor engineers around you. You retain a hands-on, individual-contributor focus., As a Senior Engineer, you will: * Serve as tech lead and/or primary design owner for a project or component within AI BU, driving it from design through delivery. * Design and build complex, high-quality software systems, owning technical correctness, performance, and maintainability within your area. * Author design docs/RFCs for your project or team and participate in design reviews for adjacent teams. * Write production code and review the most complex designs and PRs within your team. * Partner with your manager/tech lead and product stakeholders to translate requirements into technical designs. * Mentor and support the growth of less experienced engineers on your team. * Identify and help resolve technical risk within your area of ownership - technical debt, scalability limits, reliability gaps. * Contribute to and help enforce best practices in system design, testing, observability, and operational excellence within your team. * Stay current on new technologies, frameworks, and patterns, and propose adoption where it adds value. ## Related Videos - [Developer Experience, Platform Engineering and AI powered Apps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/990-developer-experience-platform-engineering-and-ai-powered-apps) - [Resolving technical debts in software architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1680-resolving-technical-debts-in-software-architecture) - [The Cloud is Calling: Answer with In-Demand Skills](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/945-the-cloud-is-calling-answer-with-in-demand-skills) - [AI That Fits Your Business, Not the Other Way Around](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100148-ai-that-fits-your-business-not-the-other-way-around) - [Your Code as a Crime Scene](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1342-your-code-as-a-crime-scene) - [Cloud Run- the rise of serverless and containerization](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/106-cloud-run-the-rise-of-serverless-and-containerization) ## Related Articles - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [MLOps And AI Driven Development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/82-mlops-and-ai-driven-development) - [Graph and AI Trends 2026: Why Is AI Running but Not Yet Delivering?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/680-graph-and-ai-trends-2026-why-is-ai-running-but-not-yet-delivering) - [What is Software Engineering in the Age of AI?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/640-what-is-software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai) - [Best US AI Conferences for CTOs in 2026: Build vs. Buy, Vendor Evaluation, and Peer Intelligence](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/736-best-us-ai-conferences-for-ctos-in-2026-build-vs-buy-vendor-evaluation-and-peer-intelligence)