Solution Engineer

Job title: Solution 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.

Success profile Ready for a sales career at NetApp? Explore the traits that can help you thrive.

• Relationship expertise
• Communicator
• Results-driven
• Strategic
• Collaborative
• Perceptive

Responsibilities

• Location: Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
• 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 Solution Engineer (SE) collaborates closely with client executives to align NetApp's technical strategy with the customer's long-term vision and goals. The SE addresses business and IT challenges by providing uniquely differentiated solutions. This role involves engaging with a wide range of customer stakeholders and leveraging the appropriate NetApp team and expertise in solutions, products, ecosystems, and industry knowledge.

Job Requirements

• As a Solutions Engineer in NetApp's Sales Function, you will primarily provide pre-sales technical support for the development and implementation of complex products/applications/solutions. You will utilise your technical expertise and our cutting-edge data storage portfolio to address customers' technical needs and deliver successful business results, focusing on expanding our presence within existing and new clients together with business partners.
• Leverage in-depth product knowledge to deliver technical expertise through sales presentations and product demonstrations to sales staff and customers
• Collaborate with sales staff to assess customer needs, design tailored storage solutions, and prepare detailed product specifications for implementation
• Design and architect on-premise or hybrid storage systems with strong knowledge of NAS, SAN, and Object Storage, including enterprise and Cloud Services environments
• Build proof-of-concept applications and rapid prototypes to demonstrate solution feasibility to clients
• Provide consultation, product capability assessments, and ROI/TCO analysis to articulate the competitive advantages of NetApp storage solutions
• Deliver deep expertise across the Storage and Data Management vendor ecosystem, including prior experience with backup solutions
• Collaborate with client executives and partner sales teams to develop strategies that drive customer opportunities and advise on the utilization of broader technical resources

Education

• At least 8 Years of experience and expertise in technical specifications on storage product and services

• Prior experience of working in capacity of Solutions Engineer, Pre Sales Architect, Sales Engineering, Solutions Architect on storage technologies

• (Preferred) Specialised knowledge in Cloud, Storage, AI/ML, Database, Microservice, Enterprise Application or DevOps is advantageous

• Operate as Subject-Matter-Expert (SME) and has the ability to influence Sales team, driving initiatives and act as a Decision-maker on Projects

• 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.

• 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. Apply now.

• AI Disclosure

• For select roles, some stages of our hiring process may use artificial intelligence tools to help evaluate applications and candidate selection. These tools support—rather than replace—human decision-making.

• Our values

• Put the customer at the center. Care for each other and our communities. Think and act like owners. Build belonging every day. Embrace a growth mindset.

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.