Senior Principal Engineer — Lead Scale & Architecture

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in Austin is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead and build across the platform. You will work on the most demanding problems, establish technical standards, and drive architecture and engineering practices at a global scale.

The role emphasizes hands-on contribution, mentoring, and balancing technical leadership with business judgment. It offers a path to influence many teams and impact Amazon's broad systems—from devices to cloud services.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on professional engineering development experience.
• Technical leadership and mentorship experience of engineering teams.
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems or complex hardware.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
• Functionally 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, actively 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. You are a visionary leader, builder and an operator.
• Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.

Skills

Technical leadership

Mentorship

Hands-on engineering

Distributed systems

Large-scale systems

Performance & scalability

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in Austin is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead and build across the platform. You will work on the most demanding problems, establish technical standards, and drive architecture and engineering practices at a global scale.

The role emphasizes hands-on contribution, mentoring, and balancing technical leadership with business judgment. It offers a path to influence many teams and impact Amazon's broad systems—from devices to cloud services.