Principal Engineer, Amazon | Multiple Locations, USA

Amazon.com • Seattle, WA

263d • $180,100 - $311,200

About The Position

At Amazon, Principal Engineers are both visionary leaders and hands-on builders. As Amazon's most senior individual contributors, Principal Engineers work on our hardest problems. While many companies this size take their foot-off the gas pedal, at Amazon, it's still Day 1. This startup mentality, however, does not admit the luxury of a conservative approach. Principal Engineers are asked to venture beyond comfortable approaches to pioneer new spaces, and inspire others as to what's possible. We are looking for architects and hands-on builders, who are highly attuned to the technical realities of building and operating high-scale systems for services and data. A Principal Engineer should have strong technical judgment and influential skills to facilitate discussions for business-critical designs. The perfect candidate will be able to operate at the Director, VPs and SVP level as a key technical adviser. They should be able to provide both architectural guidance and detailed technical direction while nurturing a continuous delivery culture.

Requirements

• 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms.

Nice To Haves

• Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, designing massive global networks.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions.
• Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations.
• Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
• Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
• Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.

Benefits

• Equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
• Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: General Merchandise Retailers
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees