Act as the primary technical liaison between the GCNV Control Plane and the Data Plane (DP) teams. Align orchestration logic with the high-performance requirements of the underlying NetApp ONTAP storage.
Collaborate with the NetApp DP team to influence the DP roadmap, ensuring features are optimized and performant for Google Cloud’s distributed architecture.
Lead the design of end-to-end workflows that span from user-facing APIs down to low-level volume provisioning and data movement.
Guide executive and mid-level engineers across both CP and DP teams, fostering a culture of performance-first engineering.
Identify and resolve systemic bottlenecks across the stack (e.g., API latency, provisioning speed, and I/O throughput) to meet sub-millisecond latency goals.
Minimum qualifications:
Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
8 years of experience in software development.
Experience designing and implementing distributed computing systems.
Experience in the Java programming language, and developing software applications using the Go programming language.
Experience integrating cloud APIs into software applications.
Experience with cloud storage solutions and technologies.
Preferred qualifications:
8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
Experience with NetApp ONTAP or similar enterprise storage arrays.
Understanding of VPC peering, Private Service Access (PSA), and cloud networking performance.
Ability to use profiling tools (e.g., pprof, perf) and observability stacks (Prometheus, Monarch) to diagnose performance regressions.
