Amazon

Principal Engineer | Multiple Locations, USA, Global Specialty Recruiting Team

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2 days ago
Herndon, VA, USA +4 moreStaff+
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Base Salary

$200k - $311k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Serve as a technical leader on demanding cross-functional EC2 projects.
  • Decompose complex problems into straightforward solutions and understand system interdependencies and limitations.
  • Provide expert guidance on performance, scalability, enterprise architecture, and engineering practices.
  • Mentor engineers and support career development across teams and the engineering community.
  • Influence multiple teams to improve productivity and effectiveness through technical leadership.
  • Make technology decisions using strong technical judgment and business judgment.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of hands-on professional engineering development experience.
  • Experience providing technical leadership and mentoring engineering teams.
  • Preferred: deep hands-on expertise in large-scale full-stack development, distributed systems, massive global networks, embedded systems, or complex hardware.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life, and AD&D coverage.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Positions are available in San Diego, Sunnyvale, New York, Herndon, and Seattle, USA.

Tech Stack

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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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