Amazon
Principal, Senior Principal and Distinguished Engineer, AWS Agentic AI
$200K–$271K
Seattle, WA +2 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Mar 4, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Redmond, WA
Bellevue, WA - Experience
- 10+ years of design, development engineering experience.
About the job
Leads the architecture and development of scalable AWS AI agent platforms and services, setting technical direction and delivering strategic projects for customers.
What you'll do
- Design, build, and scale AI agent systems and AWS services, including platforms, orchestration, retrieval, security, or modernization solutions.
- Lead architecture and engineering strategy for critical projects and make complex technical decisions across organizations.
- Mentor engineers and collaborate with product, engineering, and science leaders to drive innovation.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of design, development engineering experience.
- Experience collaborating across multiple organizations and influencing key outcomes.
- Experience as a technical leader of multiple concurrent projects, driving strategic technical decisions.
Nice to have
- Experience designing, building & operating large scale, highly available, secure cloud infrastructure.
- Experience with AI software systems including Agents.
Pay
200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
AWS, Gen AI, .NET, mainframe, VMware
AI focus
Builds AI agent platforms, multi-agent orchestration, evaluation and knowledge retrieval systems, security agents, and AI-driven modernization services.
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