Principal Architect – Gen AI Platform (Scale & Security)

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Santa Clara (CA)

On-site

USD 230,000 - 311,000

Full time

12 hours ago

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Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a technically deep Principal Engineer to drive the architecture, engineering strategy, and technical standards for AgentCore.

This role focuses on building a scalable, secure platform for deploying autonomous AI agents, with a hands‑on leadership style to tackle hard problems in Generative AI. The Principal Engineer will mentor engineers, set technical direction, and deliver strategic projects that impact the business and customers at scale within the Agentic

Qualifications

12+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
8+ years of leading design or architecture of scalable systems.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
12+ years of programming with at least one language.

Responsibilities

Innovate by building a new AWS service that is trend setting in the Gen AI field.
Inspire and mentor engineers, delivering large, scalable systems with fault tolerance.
Define architecture direction for AgentCore and the broader platform.
Drive technical strategy, standards, and cross‑team collaboration within a startup‑like environment at scale.

Skills

Software development

System architecture

Team leadership

Programming experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a technically deep Principal Engineer to drive the architecture, engineering strategy, and technical standards for AgentCore.

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