Senior Principal Engineer, Compute & ML Infrastructure

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

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC - A57, home to AWS Compute and ML Services, is hiring Principal Engineers and Senior Principal Engineers. You will shape the architecture of compute platforms, ML infrastructure, serverless runtimes, and security foundations at global scale.

Join a team delivering bare-metal performance with isolation, coordinating across multiple AWS organizations, and influencing roadmaps while mentoring engineers and raising the bar for operational excellence.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Experience owning technical architecture, end-to-end delivery, and partnering with senior leadership.
• Track record of leading multiple concurrent technical initiatives and driving decisions that stuck.
• Experience influencing across organizational boundaries without positional authority.

Responsibilities

• Own technical architecture and hands-on delivery of critical systems across compute platforms, ML infrastructure, serverless runtimes, security foundations, or custom silicon integration.
• Drive end-to-end system design decisions across the full stack, from hardware interfaces to customer-facing APIs, with high emphasis on latency, security, and reliability.
• Lead cross-team initiatives spanning multiple AWS organizations to deliver cohesive systems.
• Author and champion technical vision documents, influence product roadmaps, and represent AWS Compute and ML Services in executive architectural reviews.
• Make hard architectural calls at the hardware–software boundary where tradeoffs are permanent and measurable in billions of customer-hours.
• Mentor and develop senior engineers—raising the technical bar through design and code reviews and leadership.
• Establish and raise the operational bar: you build it, you own it, you make it better.

Skills

Technical architecture

End-to-end delivery

Leadership of initiatives

Cross-organizational influence

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC - A57, home to AWS Compute and ML Services, is hiring Principal Engineers and Senior Principal Engineers. You will shape the architecture of compute platforms, ML infrastructure, serverless runtimes, and security foundations at global scale.

Join a team delivering bare-metal performance with isolation, coordinating across multiple AWS organizations, and influencing roadmaps while mentoring engineers and raising the bar for operational excellence.