Principal Engineer
About the job
- At least 12 years of hands-on software engineering experience, including designing and building large-scale distributed systems.
- A demonstrated track record as a technical lead or architect on multi-team or organization-wide initiatives.
- Deep hands-on experience with cloud-native architectures on AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
- Well-versed in using agentic engineering with local and/or frontier models.
- Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems.
- Ability to build technical consensus and influence engineering direction across teams without formal authority.
- Strong system design skills, with direct ownership of architecture for highly available, low-latency, large-scale services.
- Written and verbal communication skills sufficient to author design documents and RFCs and present technical trade-offs to engineers and executives.
- Experience with data processing, analytics, and AI/ML systems.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and raising technical quality across teams.
- Prior experience building CI/CD infrastructure for large-scale deployments.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Serve as technical architect and/or tech lead across one or more major AI BU initiatives, owning system design end-to-end.
- Set technical direction and design standards across multiple engineering teams, ensuring architectural coherence.
- Drive ambiguous, cross-cutting technical problems to well-reasoned solutions, authoring design documents and RFCs that align stakeholders across teams.
- Write production code, review high-stakes designs and pull requests, and personally unblock difficult engineering problems.
- Partner with engineering and product leadership to translate business priorities into technical roadmaps and architecture decisions.
- Mentor engineers across teams and raise the technical bar without formal management authority.
- Identify systemic technical risks, including architectural debt, scalability bottlenecks, and reliability gaps, and drive them to resolution.
- Represent AI BU engineering in cross-functional and executive technical reviews, articulating trade-offs and recommendations.
- Champion best practices in system design, testing, observability, and operational excellence across influenced teams.
- Evaluate and introduce technologies, frameworks, and architectural patterns, balancing innovation with pragmatism.
- Master’s degree.
- Domain expertise in knowledge graphs, semantics, and data modeling.
- Hands-on experience with distributed database systems.
- Hands-on experience with training and deploying AI models.
- Hands-on experience with GPU workloads and accelerated computing infrastructure.
About the company
Spot.io, part of NetApp, helps businesses manage cloud costs and infrastructure on AWS. It uses software that analyzes cloud usage and automates management to lower compute expenses, especially through AWS EC2 spot instances, which offer spare capacity at reduced prices. The product provides deep visibility into cloud spending, an AWS cost optimization calculator for estimating potential savings, and a free action plan tailored to each customer. Revenue comes from selling software licenses and consulting services. Target customers include enterprises using containers and orchestration tools like Kubernetes, EKS, ECS, KOPS, Docker Swarm, and OpenShift. The company aims to reduce cloud compute costs for customers while simplifying cloud operations and improving efficiency.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Acquired
Total Funding
$53.2M
Headquarters
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Founded
2015
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q4 FY2026 revenue hit $1.95 billion, up 12% year over year.
- NetApp raised FY2027 revenue guidance to $7.325-$7.575 billion after strong Q1 demand.
- Management reported more than 1,100 AI-specific deals in FY2026, with 350 more last quarter.
What critics are saying
- Flexera closed Spot's acquisition on March 3, 2025, shrinking NetApp's CloudOps scope.
- NetApp disclosed a May 20, 2026 WARN notice cutting 77 San Jose jobs.
- Pure Storage, Dell, and HPE are attacking AI storage wins aggressively through 2026.
What makes NetApp unique
- NetApp's ONTAP and all-flash arrays anchor its hybrid-cloud storage platform.
- FY2026 public cloud revenue reached $182 million, extending Cloud Volumes differentiation.
- AI-focused EF50 and EF80 target high-throughput workloads that protect GPU utilization.
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Benefits
- Health Insurance
- Phone/Internet Stipend
- Gym Membership
- Parental Leave
- Flexible Work Hours