[Hiring] Principal Engineer @Amazon

Role Description

We are hiring Principal, Senior, and Distinguished Engineers to join AWS Foundational Data & Storage Services. Our vision is to make every byte of enterprise data instantly durable, infinitely scalable, and intelligent by default. We pair decades of operational experience with relentless curiosity to build foundational services such as:

• Object storage (Amazon S3)
• Block storage (Amazon EBS)
• Archival storage (Amazon S3 Glacier)
• Analytics and database engines (Amazon Redshift, EMR, SageMaker)
• Ultra-high-performance caching layers

We're hiring Principal and Senior Principal Engineers to own technical direction for:

• Building a new cache product for GenAI and analytics
• Setting architecture for S3 storage at the exabyte tier
• Driving engineering direction of SageMaker, Redshift, EMR, and AWS Database Services

These roles are for engineers who have led org-wide technical strategy and want to see it run in production. If you want to build systems that operate at planet scale, this is the team.

Key job responsibilities

• Deliver strategic technical projects and design new storage, data, and caching systems at massive scale
• Lead architecture and engineering strategy for foundational services across S3, EBS, Glacier, and the analytics and database layer
• Mentor and guide engineers while solving the hardest durability, availability, and latency problems hands-on
• Work cross-functionally with Principal Engineers and teams across AWS Foundational Data & Storage Services
• Scout and recruit top technical talent, actively growing the engineering community
• Drive a strong engineering excellence and operational culture across all services and teams
• Shape technical direction for systems where correctness, durability, and failure-mode ownership are first-class
• Balance deep systems expertise with strong analytical skills to make informed architectural decisions at scale

Qualifications

• 10+ years of design, 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems, storage or database internals, high-throughput data systems, and performance-critical caching
• Experience with big data and analytics engines, containerized microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architecture
• Hands-on experience designing for extreme durability, availability, and latency guarantees in production systems serving at planet scale

Benefits

• Comprehensive 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

Learn more about our benefits at Amazon Benefits .