Principal, Senior, Distinguished Engineer, AWS Foundational Data & Storage Services, AWS Foundational Data & Storage Services
Amazon1 day ago
Remote, Canada +2 moreSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Deliver strategic technical projects and design storage, data, and caching systems at massive scale.
- Lead architecture and engineering strategy for foundational services across S3, EBS, Glacier, Redshift, EMR, SageMaker, and AWS Database Services.
- Mentor and guide engineers while solving durability, availability, latency, and failure-mode problems hands-on.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Principal Engineers and teams across AWS Foundational Data & Storage Services.
- Scout and recruit top technical talent and grow the engineering community.
- Drive engineering excellence and operational culture across services and teams.
- Shape technical direction for systems measured against eleven-nines durability and availability requirements.
- Apply deep systems expertise and analytical skills to architectural decisions at scale.
Requirements
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.
- Preferred: experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include health, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance, RRSP, DPSP, paid time off, and other health and well-being resources.
- Some positions are remote-eligible, while others are anchored to hubs such as Seattle, Irvine, and Berlin.
About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.