Senior Principal Engineer - Containers Platform & AI

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 240,000 - 325,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

RSUs

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle seeks a Senior Principal Engineer to lead container architectures across ECS, EKS, Fargate, Batch, and ECR.

You will shape technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive AI-drivenContainer capabilities into production while interfacing with customers and open-source communities. The role demands deep system-level expertise, a track record of scalable decisions, and the ability to influence across teams without formal authority.

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, driving strategic technical decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own technical direction for Containers — architecture, standards, and what gets built and what gets stopped.
• Go deep in design reviews, code, and operations for orchestration, scheduling, isolation, and registry systems.
• Own the integrated Containers strategy across ECS, EKS, Fargate, Batch, and ECR.
• Drive integration work to strengthen container products together and accelerate team delivery.
• Move AI-driven capabilities in Containers from prototype to production ownership.
• Build, prototype, and ship — resolve direction by delivering tangible results.
• Raise the bar across Containers teams through reviews, mentorship, and technical judgment.
• Engage with customers running critical container workloads and translate learnings into architecture.

Skills

Engineering leadership

Container orchestration

Kubernetes internals

Cross-org collaboration

Tools

Kubernetes

containerd

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle seeks a Senior Principal Engineer to lead container architectures across ECS, EKS, Fargate, Batch, and ECR.

You will shape technical direction, mentor engineers, and drive AI-drivenContainer capabilities into production while interfacing with customers and open-source communities. The role demands deep system-level expertise, a track record of scalable decisions, and the ability to influence across teams without formal authority.