Principal Engineer, Builder Experience & AI Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Arlington (VA); In loco; USD 200.000 - 271.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer for Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) to set technical direction for platforms used by thousands of builders.

You will decompose complex problems into scalable solutions and define multi-year roadmaps, influencing across teams and domains. You will lead architecture of distributed systems, raise the engineering bar through reviews and mentoring, and partner with product and science leaders to align with business goals

Competenze

• Extensive professional software development experience, including significant experience designing and architecting new and existing large-scale systems.
• Demonstrated experience designing and building large-scale, multi-tiered, distributed or highly concurrent software systems and services.
• Deep expertise in software design patterns, reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.
• Proficiency in one or more modern programming languages (e.g., Java, C++, C#, or similar).
• Experience leading technical direction across multiple teams and influencing engineering decisions beyond a single team's scope.

Mansioni

• Set and drive technical strategy for complex, high-impact platforms and services used broadly across Amazon's engineering community.
• Decompose ambiguous, large-scale problems into simple, scalable, and maintainable solutions, and define multi-year technical roadmaps.
• Lead the design and architecture of distributed systems that operate reliably at massive scale.
• Raise the engineering bar through design reviews, code reviews, operational excellence practices, and mentorship of senior and principal-track engineers.
• Partner with engineering, product, and science leaders to align technical direction with organizational goals and customer needs.
• Identify and prioritize the highest-leverage opportunities to improve how Amazon builders develop, build, test, deploy, and operate software — including opportunities created by Generative AI and agentic development.
• Influence engineering standards and best practices across team and organizational boundaries.
• Balance long-term transformation with incremental, measurable delivery of value.

Conoscenze

Large-scale systems design

Distributed systems

Software design patterns

Programming languages (Java/C/C#)

Technical leadership

Cross-team influence

Formazione

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Strumenti

Source control

CI/CD

Build systems

Testing/verification

Developer productivity tooling

AWS services

Descrizione del lavoro

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking a Principal Engineer for Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) to set technical direction for platforms used by thousands of builders.

You will decompose complex problems into scalable solutions and define multi-year roadmaps, influencing across teams and domains. You will lead architecture of distributed systems, raise the engineering bar through reviews and mentoring, and partner with product and science leaders to align with business goals