Amazon
Principal Engineer | Multiple Locations, USA, Global Specialty Recruiting Team
$200K–$311K
Sunnyvale, CA +4 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 17, 2026
- Location
- Sunnyvale, CA
Seattle, WA
New York, NY
Herndon, VA
San Diego, CA - Experience
- 12+ years of hands-on professional engineering development experience; technical leadership and mentorship experience required, with no duration specified.
About the job
Leads the architecture and development of large-scale EC2 infrastructure, solving complex technical problems while influencing engineering practices and mentoring teams.
What you'll do
- Lead demanding cross-functional projects and shape technical architecture and engineering practices.
- Decompose complex problems, understand system dependencies, and guide technology decisions using expertise in performance, scalability, and enterprise architecture.
- Mentor engineers and influence multiple teams to improve their effectiveness.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of hands-on professional engineering development experience.
- Technical leadership and mentorship experience with engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Deep hands-on expertise in at least one area: large-scale full-stack development, distributed systems, massive global networks, embedded systems, or complex hardware.
Pay
San Diego: 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually (base salary); Sunnyvale: 230,100.00 - 311,200.00 USD annually (base salary); New York: 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually (base salary); Herndon: 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually (base salary); Seattle: 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon EC2, AWS, AWS Nitro System, Graviton
AI focus
The EC2 organization builds AI and accelerated-computing infrastructure, including instances for training and serving large-scale AI models; AI infrastructure is among the areas addressed by the team.
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