Senior Principal Software Engineer, Storage - AI Infrastructure Innovation jobs in United States
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NetSuite · 1 month ago

Senior Principal Software Engineer, Storage - AI Infrastructure Innovation

positionSeattle, WA, United States
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
date10+ years exp

NetSuite is a company focused on innovative cloud solutions, and they are seeking a Senior Principal Software Engineer to lead architecture and development for distributed storage technologies. The role involves hands-on development and collaboration across various teams to advance the state of the art in storage solutions.

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Responsibilities

Lead end-to-end architecture, system design, and implementation for distributed storage platforms
Innovate on query processing, transaction, and IO performance, and work across different components - query planning/optimization, distributed execution engine, index and storage engine
Develop production-grade, high-performance software features with rigorous durability, correctness, observability, and security
Define performance goals and success metrics; design benchmarks and conduct large-scale experiments to validate throughput and latency
Define consistency, replication, and recovery strategies
Collaborate across storage, networking, compute, and control-plane teams to deliver cohesive end-to-end solutions on OCI
Mentor engineers, provide technical leadership and reviews, and influence multi-year roadmap and technical standards

Qualification

Distributed systemsDistributed execution enginesCloud architecturePerformance profilingConsensusTransactionsObservability at scaleAI/HPC workload patternsTechnical leadershipMentoring

Required

Deep expertise in distributed systems with hands-on delivery of large-scale, fault-tolerant, strongly consistent services
Experience building distributed execution engines
Proven ability to design for global scale: sharding/partitioning, placement policies, rebalancing, and multi-region replication
Strong software engineering background with performance profiling, correctness testing, and rigorous code quality
Cloud architecture experience on a major public cloud, including observability, orchestration, and incident response
BS/MS in Computer Science, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience; proven technical leadership and mentoring

Preferred

Familiarity with high-performance IO paths; understanding of cross-region networking and latency trade-offs
Strong foundation in consensus and transactions
Expertise with observability at scale: tracing, metrics, logs, eBPF/perf, chaos/failure testing, and SLO-driven operations
Knowledge of AI/HPC workload patterns and their implications for storage, query processing, and consistency models

Company

NetSuite

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NetSuite is cloud computing company dedicated to delivering business applications over the internet.
dateFounded in 1998
location
Redwood Shores, California, USA
people-size10001+ employees
web-link
https://www.netsuite.com/portal/home.shtml

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$157.79M
Key Investors
Meritech Capital PartnersTako VenturesStarVest Partners
2016-07-28Acquired
2007-12-20IPO
2007-02-05Secondary Market· $17.87M

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Brian Chess
SVP Technology and AI
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Eli Johnson
Vice President, Global Sales Productivity
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