Amazon
Senior Principal Engineer , AWS Billing
$240K–$350K
Seattle, WA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Location
- Seattle, WA
New York, NY - Experience
- 15+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; preferred: Master's degree or Ph.D. in a related field.
About the job
Sets the multi-year technical strategy for transforming AWS billing into a scalable, real-time platform supporting customer pricing, cost management, and financial processing.
What you'll do
- Own billing architecture strategy and guide development of next-generation systems.
- Drive cross-organizational architectural decisions and align teams on billing platform transformation.
- Guide architecture and design quality, mentor engineers, and advance use of AI in development, testing, and delivery.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 15+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- Experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems in a multi-tiered, service-oriented environment.
- Experience defining and driving multi-year technical strategy across multiple engineering teams.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience with high-volume data processing, real-time computation, financial/billing systems at scale, pricing or regulatory rules, generative AI, or cross-organizational influence.
Pay
USD 264,100.00 - 350,000.00 annually (base salary); USD 240,100.00 - 324,800.00 annually (base salary)
Tools
generative AI
AI focus
Apply generative AI technology and shape its use to accelerate development, testing, and delivery across the billing platform; systems should also support autonomous agents interacting with billing, pricing, and cost data.
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