Principal Software Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 230,000 - 311,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

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

Description

We are seeking technically deep Principal Engineer to drive the architecture, engineering strategy, and technical standards for AgentCore. AgentCore, is a comprehensive, modular platform for deploying and operating autonomous AI agents securely and at scale, providing serverless runtime, memory, identity, gateway, and observability components.

Description

We are seeking technically deep Principal Engineer to drive the architecture, engineering strategy, and technical standards for AgentCore. AgentCore, is a comprehensive, modular platform for deploying and operating autonomous AI agents securely and at scale, providing serverless runtime, memory, identity, gateway, and observability components.

The Principal Engineer will be a hands-on technical leader, tackling the hardest, most ambiguous problems in the rapidly evolving Generative AI space, and setting the technical direction for a platform that is critical to accelerating customers' agents to production.

Key job responsibilities

In this role, you will build a new AWS service that is going to be trend setting in the Gen AI field. This is an area that requires solving the hardest engineering challenges to enable machine learning powered solutions for our customers. As a tier zero Amazon service our solutions have to be scalable, efficient, and fault tolerant. Experience with machine learning systems is preferred, but not required. You will deliver some of our most strategic technical projects, deliver large scalable systems, design new software systems and have a significant bottom-line impact on our business and competitive position. In addition to delivering critical software, you will draw from a deep and broad technical expertise to mentor engineers and provide leadership on complex technical issues. This position within the Agentic AI team presents a unique and rare opportunity to get in on the ground floor within a fast growing business and help shape the technology, product and the business. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, desire to have an industry wide impact and ability to work within a fast moving, startup environment in a large company to rapidly deliver services that have a broad business impact.

Basic Qualifications

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

Basic Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 10+ years of highly scalable systems experience
• 15+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, CA, Santa Clara - 230,100.00 - 311,200.00 USD annually

USA, NY, New York - 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually

USA, WA, Seattle - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually

Company

Amazon Web Services, Inc.

Job ID: A10583518