Software Engineer 5
Job Summary
Picture yourself working with the world’s best employees. Join the StorageGRID team at NetApp and become a part of one of the top 30 Best Multinational Workplaces in the world as ranked by the Great Place to Work Institute.
NetApp’s StorageGRID is a software-defined, object-based storage platform that provides intelligent policy-driven data management. StorageGRID stores and manages unstructured data at scale to provide secure, durable object storage. This is your chance to work alongside a group of talented developers, impart your vision, and rapidly launch the latest cloud storage software. If you have mastered your current technology, language, or development environments, we know you will fit in with our team.
As a lead working on performance automation of StorageGRID product, you will be responsible for designing the strategy for performance testing, automation, improvements around benchmarking tools and setting / testing configurations, ultimately suggesting and making performance improvements.
You will be part of a highly skilled technical team and working closely with the team of software developers responsible for the design, development, QA and install/deployment of applications used by our post sales, partners and customers.
Job Requirements
Essential Functions:
A major part of your responsibility will be to apply current skills and use up-to-date technologies to complete projects as part of the design and development of application related solutions including:
Coding
Performance testing
Infrastructure Support
Documentation
As part of a new team, you will participate in technical discussions where evaluating and executing design and development plans for products/tools. You will have direct influence on the decisions and outcomes related to project direction.
A willingness to work on additional tasks and responsibilities that will contribute towards team, department, and company goals.
Job Requirements: Desired Skills & Experience
Technical:
Must Have’s:
Hardware and software performance test experience of enterprise storage protocols (SAN, NAS, and/or HTTP/S3)
Experience in software/hardware performance analysis and improvements
Leadership of performance test strategy, design, execution, and documentation.
Defining and setting up infrastructure, tools, and support processes including CI/CD pipeline and benchmarking tools
Proven hands-on working experience with Linux and TCP/IP networking
Experience in automation with Python, Shell/Bash or similar programming languages
Nice to Have’s:
Hands-on experience with Jenkins/Bamboo, Elastic/ELK and Go/Java
Working experience with benchmarking tools (eg, fio, iperf)
Hands-on experience with enterprise servers, storage, switches, and routers
Familiar with HTTP, and AWS S3 APIs
Linux environment with containers or VMWare
Process and other skills:
Must Have’s:
Very good understanding of development methodologies like Agile Scrum/Scrum of Scrums.
Must have competency and proven track record of delivering complex technical projects within a team environment of other engineers, meeting tight deadlines without sacrificing quality.
Ability to work with remote teams
Strong oral and written communication skills are essential.
Ability to work collaboratively within a team environment of other engineers to meet aggressive goals and meet high quality standards.
Striving for efficiency, consistency, and effectiveness.
Managing periodic reporting on progress to internal stake holders
Incident management, trouble shooting and RCA
Strong aptitude for learning new technologies.
Ability to follow standard engineering principles and practices.
Creative approach to problem solving.
Responsibility and Interaction:
Responsibility:
The types of tasks this individual is responsible are a mix of structured and unstructured tasks. This individual will apply attained experiences and knowledge in solving routine to moderately complex problems.
Interaction:
This individual interacts primarily with staff to director levels employees within the function, and the technical team on assigned projects. There may be communication with employees in other functions as required.
General direction is provided on routine work, and detailed direction is provided on new projects and assignments, as well as on-going review of activities and priorities.
The ideal candidate will be an important contributor to team projects.
Education & Experience:
A minimum of 10 years of experience is required. 10 to 15 years of experience is preferred.
A Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering or Computer Science, or a Master Degree; or equivalent experience is required.
Demonstrated ability to have completed multiple, moderately complex technical tasks.
Education
All internal movements within the Product Group via requisition will be lateral, offering valuable growth opportunities to extend your skills in a new area. Opportunities for a promotion will be reviewed in the normal course of business, aligned with our promotion process.
Equal Opportunity Employer:
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