Amazon

Senior Principal Engineer , AWS Billing

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Seattle, WA, USA or New York, NY, USAStaff+
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Base Salary

$240k - $350k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Define and own the multi-year technical strategy for AWS Billing architecture.
  • Drive architectural decisions across AWS service teams, Marketplace, Sales, and Finance.
  • Provide technical guidance on distributed systems, real-time processing, enterprise architecture, and generative AI.
  • Design scalable solutions for complex billing problems with emphasis on performance optimization and engineering quality.
  • Mentor engineers and the broader engineering community on advanced distributed systems challenges.
  • Lead design reviews, integration planning, and hands-on prototyping for real-time billing and pricing systems.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 15+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in a multi-tiered, service-oriented environment.
  • Experience defining and driving multi-year technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.
  • Preferred: Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • Preferred: Experience with high-volume data processing, real-time computation, or financial and billing systems at scale.
  • Preferred: Experience modeling complex pricing, contractual, or regulatory business rules in software.
  • Preferred: Familiarity with generative AI technologies and their application to software development workflows.
  • Preferred: Experience influencing technical direction across organizational boundaries without direct authority.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, and a medical advice line.
  • Flexible Spending Accounts.
  • Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the compensation package.
  • The listed locations are New York, NY and Seattle, WA.

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About Amazon

10,000+ employees

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.

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