Amazon
Principal Software Engineer
$200K–$311K
Seattle, WA +2 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
Santa Clara, CA
New York, NY - Experience
- 12+ years of non-internship professional software development and programming; 8+ years leading design or architecture. Preferred: 10+ years of highly scalable systems, or 15+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Leads architecture and hands-on development of AgentCore, an AWS platform for securely deploying and operating autonomous AI agents at scale.
What you'll do
- Set technical direction and standards, and design and build scalable, efficient, fault-tolerant systems.
- Deliver strategic software projects addressing complex engineering challenges in generative AI.
- Mentor engineers and lead on complex technical issues.
What they ask for
- 12+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 8+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- 12+ years programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- Machine learning systems experience (preferred but not required).
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; 10+ years of highly scalable systems experience; or 15+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
Pay
USD 230,100.00 - 311,200.00 annually base salary; USD 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 annually base salary; USD 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 annually base salary
Tools
AgentCore, AWS, Generative AI, machine learning
AI focus
Builds a platform for deploying and operating autonomous AI agents and addresses engineering challenges for machine learning-powered solutions.
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