Consulting Solutions Engineer

Job title: Consulting Solutions Engineer

Overview

At NetApp, our High Achievement Principles shape how we work: we innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel as a team. We have a history of helping customers turn challenges into business opportunities. As part of our sales organization, your role will require a strategic blend of technical acumen and charismatic client engagement, ensuring that every partnership is nurtured towards its maximum potential. As a pivotal link between NetApp and our clients, your contributions will directly influence the growth and direction of our department, making a lasting impact on the organization's success. This is more than a job—it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, supports professional growth, and celebrates shared victories.

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Responsibilities

• United States; San Jose, California, United States

• Job category: Amer Sales

• Job ID: 135242-en_US

• Own Every Moment at NetApp

• At NetApp, your ideas power innovation. We lead in intelligent data infrastructure—delivering unified storage, integrated data services, and solutions that help organizations unlock the full potential of their data, from AI to multicloud.

• Ready to innovate and contribute to our path to $10B? Here, you'll collaborate with passionate teams, tackle real-world challenges, and see your impact in how customers transform and grow. If you're ready to bring curiosity, creativity, and drive to every moment, NetApp is where your journey begins. Join teams that innovate to elevate, drive results, and excel together across every function.

Job Summary

The Consulting Solutions Engineer (CSE) is a critical technical leader within NetApp’s strategic account teams for the Hi-Tech sector. This role blends strategic vision with hands-on execution, serving as a trusted advisor to customer stakeholders while driving technical sales outcomes.

The CSE builds deep relationships with engineering, architecture, and IT leadership within marquee Hi-Tech accounts, shaping long-term technology strategies and ensuring flawless execution of pre-sales and solutioning activities

As the technical lead for strategic Hi-Tech account, you will partner closely with Client Executives to expand NetApp footprint by aligning solutions with customer innovation priorities such as AI/ML, hybrid cloud, cloud-native architectures, semiconductor design workflows, high-performance infrastructure, and others.

This role requires a balance of:

• Strategic Leadership: Influencing customer technology direction, shaping multi-year roadmaps, and driving platform adoption
• Tactical Execution: Leading day-to-day pre-sales activities including solution design, POCs, demos, and deal execution

Location

Location: Candidates must reside in San Jose, CA or the surrounding area.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Responsibilities

• Develop and execute account-level technical strategies and multi-year roadmaps aligned to customer business and innovation goals

• Serve as a trusted advisor to CTOs, architects, and engineering leaders within Hi-Tech organization

• Drive adoption of next-generation technologies including AI/ML infrastructure, hybrid/multi-cloud, data pipelines, and cloud-native platforms

• Create and maintain technical account plans that map to pipeline growth, whitespace expansion, and competitive displacement

• Influence ecosystem partners (hyperscalers, GSIs, ISVs) to build joint solutions aligned to customer outcomes

• Tactical Responsibilities

• Lead all pre-sales execution activities: solution design, architecture reviews, technical presentations, demos, and POCs

• Own the end-to-end technical sales cycle, ensuring alignment between customer requirements and NetApp solutions. Ensure technical accuracy and completeness of proposals, acting as the final authority on solution design

• Collaborate with specialists and product teams to bring the right technical expertise into each opportunity

• Build and present compelling technical and financial value propositions (TCO, ROI, business cases)

• Provide post-sales continuity to ensure successful deployment and customer satisfaction

• Requirements & Education

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

• 12+ years of experience in pre-sales, solutions engineering, or technical consulting

• Proven track record in managing large strategic Hi-Tech accounts

• Strong background in data infrastructure, storage, and cloud technologies

• Experience working with or for leading infrastructure vendors, hyperscalers, or system integrators

• Expertise in consultative and solution-based selling within large, complex accounts

Salary

The target salary range for this position is 223,550 - 289,300 USD. The salary offered will be determined by the candidate's location, qualifications, experience, and education and may be outside of this range. The range is based on 'On Target Earnings’ (OTE) representing the total potential earnings, which is the sum of the base salary and potential commission earned when performance targets are achieved. Final compensation packages are competitive and in line with industry standards, reflecting a variety of factors, and include a comprehensive benefits package. This may cover Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Retirement or Pension Plans, Paid Time Off (PTO), various Leave options, employee stock purchase plan, and/or restricted stocks (RSU’s). These offerings are subject to regional variations and governed by local laws, regulations, and company policies. We will provide detailed information about the specific benefits for your region during the recruitment process.

Hybrid Working

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 federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination based on age, race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability or genetic information, pregnancy, protected veteran status, and any other protected classification.

Why You'll Thrive at NetApp

At NetApp, you won't wait for the perfect moment—you'll make it. The early planning, the extra thought, the bold idea that turns good into great: That's how our people operate and how we continue to push the boundaries of data infrastructure.

NetApp is the trusted partner for organizations transforming data into opportunity. As the only enterprise-grade storage service natively embedded in Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure, we empower customers to run everything from traditional workloads to enterprise AI with unmatched performance, resilience, and security.

Our culture

We celebrate mold breakers, bold thinkers, and problem solvers. We reward initiative, impact, and ownership. We provide flexibility so you can balance professional ambition with your personal life. Here, differences are not just welcomed—they drive everything we do.

If you're ready to innovate, rise to the challenge, and own every moment - make your next move your best one.

Why NetApp

We are committed to building an inclusive environment that attracts, retains, and motivates a diverse workforce. We value curiosity, integrity, and a strong client-focused mindset. We strive to create opportunities for professional growth and recognize contributions across roles and experience levels.

Benefits

• Volunteer time off

• 40 hours of paid volunteer time each year.

• Well-being

• Employee Assistance Program, fitness, and mental health resources to help employees be their best.

• Time away

• Paid time off for vacation and to recharge.

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