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NetSuite · 1 month ago

Principal Software Engineer, Storage - AI Infrastructure Innovation

positionSeattle, WA, United States
timeFull-time
remoteOnsite
senioritySenior Level, Lead/Staff
date6+ years exp

NetSuite is seeking a Principal Software Engineer for their AI Infrastructure Innovation team. In this role, you will lead the architecture and development of distributed storage technologies, focusing on performance and collaboration across teams to create cohesive 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 scaleMentoring engineersAI/HPC workload patternsTechnical leadership

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
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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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