Senior Principal Engineer - Real-Time Cloud Billing

Amazon Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 264,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC in New York seeks a seasoned architect to define the multi-year billing strategy and guide the next generation of real-time billing systems, built to scale with AWS growth and regulatory complexity.

You will partner with engineering, finance, and service teams to convert batch processing into a live platform, mentor engineers on distributed systems, and leverage AI to accelerate development, testing, and delivery while maintaining accuracy and performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 15+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems
• Experience defining and driving multi-year technical strategy across multiple teams

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year technical strategy for billing architecture, partnering with engineering leaders across the organization
• Drive architectural decisions across AWS service teams to transform billing into a real-time platform
• Provide technical guidance across billing and commerce teams with deep knowledge of distributed systems and AI
• Ensure quality of architecture by decomposing complex problems into scalable solutions with performance focus
• Mentor engineers on advanced distributed systems and align engineering effort with business outcomes

Skills

15+ years software development

Distributed systems

Multi-year technical strategy

Real-time processing

AI in software development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC in New York seeks a seasoned architect to define the multi-year billing strategy and guide the next generation of real-time billing systems, built to scale with AWS growth and regulatory complexity.

You will partner with engineering, finance, and service teams to convert batch processing into a live platform, mentor engineers on distributed systems, and leverage AI to accelerate development, testing, and delivery while maintaining accuracy and performance.