Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Systems Architect

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 271,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to be a technical leader on its most demanding cross-functional projects, driving performance, scalability, and architecture decisions across EC2 and AWS infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, decompose complex problems, and influence multiple teams while maintaining a hands-on approach to building high-impact systems in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on professional engineering development experience.
• Technical leadership and mentorship experience of engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
• Decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Assist in the career development of others, mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentorship

Hands-on engineering

Distributed systems

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to be a technical leader on its most demanding cross-functional projects, driving performance, scalability, and architecture decisions across EC2 and AWS infrastructure.

You will mentor engineers, decompose complex problems, and influence multiple teams while maintaining a hands-on approach to building high-impact systems in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.