Senior Principal Engineer, Containers Architecture & AI

Amazon Inc.; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 240,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Restricted stock units (RSUs)

Job summary

Amazon Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer for Compute Abstractions to own the Containers architecture across ECS, EKS, Fargate, Batch, and ECR.

You will drive technical direction, design reviews, and integration efforts for a high-scale, production-grade container platform. You will engage with customers, contribute to open-source projects, and mentor teams to raise technical credibility and delivery quality.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of design and development engineering experience.
• Experience collaborating across multiple organizations and influencing key outcomes.
• Experience as a technical leader of multiple concurrent projects.
• A track record of technical decisions that held up — at scale, under pressure, over time.
• The ability to influence without authority and earn trust through technical credibility.

Responsibilities

• Own technical direction for Containers — architecture, standards, and what gets built and, just as often, what gets stopped.
• Go deep in the work — design reviews, code, operational readiness — on orchestration, scheduling, isolation, and registry systems.
• Own the integrated Containers strategy — how the products fit together as one offering — and the technical direction of the container products across ECS, EKS, Fargate, Batch, and ECR.
• Drive the integration work that makes the container products stronger together than apart, and make that the fastest path for the teams building it.
• Move AI-driven capabilities in Containers from prototype into production owned and operated by the organization.
• Build, prototype, and ship — settle disputed direction by making the thing.
• Raise the bar across the Containers engineering teams through design reviews, mentorship, and technical judgment.
• Engage directly with customers running their most critical container workloads, and turn what you learn into architecture.
• Contribute to and shape the open-source projects Containers depends on — containerd, Kubernetes — and represent the organization in those communities.

Skills

Technical leadership

Cross-organizational collaboration

Influence without authority

Engineering at scale

Open-source involvement

Job description

Amazon Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Senior Principal Engineer for Compute Abstractions to own the Containers architecture across ECS, EKS, Fargate, Batch, and ECR.

You will drive technical direction, design reviews, and integration efforts for a high-scale, production-grade container platform. You will engage with customers, contribute to open-source projects, and mentor teams to raise technical credibility and delivery quality.