Amazon
Principal, Senior Principal and Distinguished Engineer, AWS Database Services
$200K–$311K
Seattle, WA +3 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Mar 4, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Redmond, WA
Bellevue, WA
East Palo Alto, CA
About the job
Leads architecture, technical strategy, and delivery of large-scale AWS database services, solving distributed-systems challenges and shaping how AI influences database products.
What you'll do
- Define architecture and drive technical strategy and roadmaps for database services.
- Prototype, build, and ship systems; address distributed-systems, consistency, performance, and reliability challenges.
- Mentor engineers, engage with customers, and evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-related approaches.
What they ask for
- Demonstrated track record of technical decisions that hold up at scale and under pressure.
- Ability to build and iterate, influence without authority, and earn trust through technical credibility.
- Experience working across organizational boundaries to drive outcomes.
- Comfort with ambiguity, bias toward action, and curiosity about AI's impact on database development.
Nice to have
- Deep expertise in distributed systems, database internals, storage engines, query optimization, replication protocols, consensus algorithms, or high-performance systems.
Pay
230,100.00 - 311,200.00 USD annually (base salary); 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon Aurora, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon DocumentDB, Amazon Neptune, Amazon ElastiCache, Amazon MemoryDB, Amazon Timestream
AI focus
Architect and build database infrastructure for AI-native applications; consider how AI reshapes how databases are built, queried, and operated, including requirements created by agentic AI.
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