Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. NetSuite is a company that offers AI-powered application experiences, and they are seeking a Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer. In this role, you will architect core platform capabilities and lead technical strategies for AI integrations while mentoring engineers and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve core platform capabilities for AI-assisted application development
- Design scalable, secure, and reliable services, APIs, SDKs, and integration patterns for GIU partner teams
- Lead technical strategy for AI harness capabilities, including LLM integration, prompt orchestration, evaluation workflows, agentic development patterns, and reusable AI components
- Define platform standards for observability, reliability, security, testing, performance, and operational readiness
- Partner with GIU engineering teams to understand adoption needs and translate them into reusable platform features
- Provide technical leadership across architecture reviews, design proposals, implementation planning, and cross-team engineering decisions
- Mentor engineers on platform design, distributed systems, AI application patterns, and high-quality software delivery
- Collaborate with product and engineering leadership to shape our roadmap and prioritize high-impact platform investments
- Evaluate emerging AI technologies, developer tooling, and cloud-native patterns for practical use within our core platform
- Drive engineering excellence through clear technical documentation, maintainable designs, automated validation, and strong CI/CD practices
Skills
- 6 to 10+ years of experience in platform engineering
- Deep platform engineering expertise
- Strong architectural judgment
- Practical experience applying AI and LLM technologies in production-oriented environments
- Ability to lead through technical influence
- Mentoring experience for senior engineers
- Ability to define scalable implementation patterns
- Experience in establishing standards for AI-enabled applications
- Hands-on engineering depth with broad systems thinking
- Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-moving technical domains
- Deep technical knowledge of frontend technologies is strongly preferred: JavaScript, TypeScript, nodejs
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
- Pre-tax commuter and parking benefits
- 401(k) Savings and Investment Plan with company match
- Paid time off: Flexible Vacation is provided to all eligible employees assigned to a salaried (non-overtime eligible) position. Accrued Vacation is provided to all other employees eligible for vacation benefits. For employees working at least 35 hours per week, the vacation accrual rate is 13 days annually for the first three years of employment and 18 days annually for subsequent years of employment. Vacation accrual is prorated for employees working between 20 and 34 hours per week. Employees working fewer than 20 hours per week are not eligible for vacation.
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick leave: 72 hours of paid sick leave upon date of hire. Refreshes each calendar year. Unused balance will carry over each year up to a maximum cap of 112 hours.
- Paid parental leave
- Adoption assistance
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
- Financial planning and group legal
- Voluntary benefits including auto, homeowner and pet insurance
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