Principal Engineer – Gen AI Platform Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a technically deep Principal Engineer to drive the architecture, engineering strategy, and technical standards for AgentCore, a modular platform for deploying and operating autonomous AI agents at scale.

The role involves building a trend-setting AWS service for Gen AI, mentoring engineers, and delivering large, reliable systems with significant bottom-line impact in a fast-moving environment within a large company.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Build a new AWS service that will be trend setting in the Gen AI field.
• Deliver large scalable systems and design new software systems.
• Mentor engineers and provide leadership on complex technical issues.

Skills

Software engineering experience

Architecture leadership

Mentoring / tech lead

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

15+ years of full SDLC experience

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a technically deep Principal Engineer to drive the architecture, engineering strategy, and technical standards for AgentCore, a modular platform for deploying and operating autonomous AI agents at scale.

The role involves building a trend-setting AWS service for Gen AI, mentoring engineers, and delivering large, reliable systems with significant bottom-line impact in a fast-moving environment within a large company.