Amazon

Principal Solutions Architect

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1 day ago
Seattle, WA, USA +2 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$183k - $284k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design scalable programs, reusable assets, automation tools, reference architectures, IaC templates, and enablement content for the Startup Solutions Architecture organization.
  • Architect distributed ML training and inference systems, MLOps workflows, model-serving architectures, and GPU/TPU-optimized solutions.
  • Lead cloud-native architecture and operations across Kubernetes/EKS, service mesh, microservices, serverless, GitOps, CI/CD, Terraform/CDK, and reliability practices.
  • Architect data pipelines, streaming and orchestration systems, analytics platforms, feature stores, vector databases, and lakehouse solutions.
  • Advise startups on proprietary data strategy, data quality, labeling, governance, security, compliance, and modernization to the cloud.
  • Mentor Solutions Architects, develop technical upskilling programs, capture field insights, and publish blogs, whitepapers, open-source repositories, and presentations.
  • Communicate technical trade-offs and strategic technology guidance to startup founders, developers, executives, and other technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

  • 15+ years of experience in relevant technology domains such as software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, or data and analytics.
  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or equivalent.
  • Experience developing technology solutions and evangelizing end-to-end technology roadmaps for cloud-based IT transformations.
  • Experience communicating with technical and non-technical audiences at the C-level, including through training, workshops, and publications.
  • Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation, large-scale automation and workflow management, and database design and implementation.
  • Strong presentation and whiteboarding skills with comfort engaging executives, IT management, and developers.
  • Experience architecting, migrating, transforming, or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, AD&D, employee assistance, mental health, medical advice line, flexible spending, adoption, and surrogacy benefits.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, parental leave, sign-on payments, and restricted stock units.
  • Base salary varies by location: $182,800.00-$247,300.00 in Seattle, $201,000.00-$272,000.00 in New York, and $210,200.00-$284,300.00 in San Francisco.
  • The posting is for locations in San Francisco, New York, and Seattle, USA.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftAWSDatabricksGoogle BigQueryKubernetesSnowflakeTerraform

Categories

Solutions Engineering
Amazon

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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