Amazon
Principal Design Technologist, AWS Search, Security, Observability, & Governance
$184K–$285K
Seattle, WA +3 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Bellevue, WA
Santa Clara, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- No specific number of years stated; Staff/Principal level or equivalent experience is requested.
About the job
Build and validate novel interaction models for AWS SSOG, then turn successful prototypes into production components in the Rhythm design system.
What you'll do
- Advise design leadership on the feasibility and potential of emerging interaction models.
- Create high-fidelity prototypes and reusable interaction patterns, including agentic experiences.
- Turn validated prototypes into production-ready Rhythm components and build tools that help teams scale patterns.
What they ask for
- Portfolio of shipped, production-grade interfaces for complex, data-dense technical products.
- Expert front-end engineering ability, including React/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, and production code contributions.
- Experience building and maintaining design-system components at scale, including architecture, accessibility, and cross-team adoption.
- Experience translating ambiguous interaction concepts into shippable patterns and operating at Staff/Principal level or equivalent.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience prototyping AI/ML or agentic experiences.
- Experience in observability, security, search, or governance, or operationalizing research into a production design system.
Pay
USD 211,000.00 - 285,400.00 annually base salary; USD 201,900.00 - 273,000.00 annually base salary; USD 183,500.00 - 248,200.00 annually base salary; USD 183,500.00 - 248,200.00 annually base salary
Tools
React/TypeScript, HTML/CSS, Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, v0
AI focus
Prototype agentic interaction models such as graduated autonomy, step-level replay, and policy-check loops; the team also uses AI to study and synthesize human-AI collaboration patterns.
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