Senior Principal Engineer & Systems Architect

Amazon Web Services (AWS); New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 298,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Principal Engineer to drive technical strategy and architecture across high‑impact, distributed systems. You will lead cross‑functional teams, decompose complex problems, and ensure scalable, high‑quality engineering practices across our cloud and devices portfolio.

The role demands extensive hands‑on development, deep expertise in performance and system architecture, and a proven track record mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of hands-on professional engineering development experience.
• Technical leadership and mentorship experience of engineering teams.
• Deep hands-on technical expertise in large scale full stack development, building distributed systems, designing massive global networks, embedded 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

12+ years engineering experience

Technical leadership

Mentorship

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a Principal Engineer to drive technical strategy and architecture across high‑impact, distributed systems. You will lead cross‑functional teams, decompose complex problems, and ensure scalable, high‑quality engineering practices across our cloud and devices portfolio.

The role demands extensive hands‑on development, deep expertise in performance and system architecture, and a proven track record mentoring engineers and shaping technical direction.