Principal Engineer

About This Role

Working on the company's hardest problems, Principal Engineers are both organizational leaders and hands-on builders. This role helps establish technical standards and drives the overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and engineering methodologies for products that delight customers. It suits a senior individual contributor who thrives in a startup mentality and wants to make decisions that impact customers globally.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader on the most demanding, cross-functional projects
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward 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 deep knowledge and experience
• Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices

Requirements

• 12+ years of hands-on professional engineering development experience
• Technical leadership and mentorship experience of engineering teams

Nice to have:

• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale full stack development, building distributed systems, designing massive global networks, embedded systems or complex hardware

Benefits

• Sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave

Important Details

• Locations: USA, CA, San Diego; USA, CA, Sunnyvale; USA, NY, New York; USA, VA, Herndon; USA, WA, Seattle

About the Company

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is one of the foundational services of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a cornerstone of modern cloud computing. Since launching in 2006, EC2 has provided secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud, serving millions of customers worldwide from individual developers to the largest enterprises and public-sector organizations. It offers thousands of instance types optimized for virtually every workload, spanning general-purpose, compute-, memory-, storage-, and accelerator-optimized use cases across multiple CPU architectures and GPU-powered instances for large-scale AI and machine learning.