Principal Engineer, EC2 Edge Frontier
About The Position
Amazon Web Services is looking for a Principal Software Development Engineer to join EC2 Edge Frontier — the organization responsible for bringing the full AWS experience to wherever customers need it. Our products — including AWS Outposts, Local Zones, and Snow Family devices — extend AWS infrastructure, services, APIs, and tools beyond traditional data centers to deliver a truly consistent cloud experience at the edge. This is a strategic technical leadership role. You will set the technical direction for systems that manage the full lifecycle of edge compute platforms — from provisioning and deployment through failure remediation and decommissioning — across a fleet of Nitro-based devices operating in customer-managed environments worldwide. You will work at the intersection of hardware platforms, distributed systems, and fleet-scale automation, solving problems that don’t exist anywhere else in cloud computing. Edge computing is one of the fastest-growing areas of AWS. You'll work on problems that push the boundaries of what's possible — running full-fidelity AWS infrastructure in places like factory floors, hospital operating rooms, 5G base stations, and remote field locations. The technical challenges are unique: hardware you can't physically access, networks you don't control, and customer environments you've never seen. If you thrive on ambiguity and want to shape the future of cloud computing beyond the data center, this is the role.
Requirements
- 10+ years of engineering experience
- 5+ years of engineering team management experience
- 10+ years of planning, designing, developing and delivering consumer software experience
- Experience partnering with product or program management teams
- Experience managing multiple concurrent programs, projects and development teams in an Agile environment
Nice To Haves
- Experience partnering with product and program management teams
- Experience designing and developing large scale, high-traffic applications
- Experience designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems
Responsibilities
- Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for edge platform infrastructure, influencing roadmaps across multiple teams and partner organizations within EC2
- Lead the architecture of next-generation instance platforms and fleet automation systems that must operate reliably in constrained, remote environments with limited connectivity
- Own technical decisions on resource allocation and system design for programs spanning hardware engineering, platform software, deployment safety, and lifecycle automation
- Drive clarity in ambiguous problem spaces — our edge environments introduce novel constraints around physical access, network availability, and hardware diversity that require creative, first-principles thinking
- Serve as a strategic technical advisor to senior leadership, translating complex technical tradeoffs into business decisions
- Mentor and develop engineers across the organization, grow the principal engineering community, and raise the technical bar through design reviews, code reviews, and written technical guidance
Benefits
- health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- paid time off
- parental leave
- sign-on payments
- restricted stock units (RSUs)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
