Principal, Senior, Distinguished Engineer, AWS Foundational Data & Storage Services, AWS Foundational Data & Storage Services
Amazon1 day ago
Remote, United States +8 moreSenior / Staff+
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$200k - $311k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deliver strategic technical projects and design storage, data, and caching systems at massive scale.
- Lead architecture and engineering strategy across S3, EBS, Glacier, Redshift, EMR, SageMaker, and AWS Database Services.
- Mentor and guide engineers while solving durability, availability, latency, and failure-mode challenges hands-on.
- Collaborate 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.
- Make architectural decisions using deep systems expertise and strong analytical skills.
Requirements
- 10+ years of design and development engineering experience.
- Experience collaborating across multiple organizations and influencing key outcomes.
- Experience serving as a technical leader across multiple concurrent projects and driving strategic technical decisions.
- Preferred: experience with large-scale distributed systems, storage or database internals, high-throughput data systems, and performance-critical caching.
- Preferred: experience with big data and analytics engines, containerized microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architecture.
- Preferred: hands-on experience designing production systems for extreme durability, availability, and latency guarantees at planet scale.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, an employee assistance program, mental health support, a medical advice line, and flexible spending accounts.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- The package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units, separate from the stated base salary.
- Some positions are remote-eligible, while others are anchored to hubs including Seattle, Irvine, and Berlin; listed U.S. locations include California, New York, Virginia, and Washington.
- Workplace accommodations and adjustments are available during the application and hiring process.
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.