Principal and Senior Principal Engineer, AWS Compute and ML Services

About the role

We are hiring Principal Engineers and Senior Principal Engineers to join AWS Compute and ML Services. AWS Compute and ML Services is the compute layer the internet runs on. Millions of customers — from early-stage startups to the world's largest enterprises — depend on us every second of every day. The problems here involve a level of scale that is unique among many axes: we enable a wide variety of hardware platforms, support dozens of geographies worldwide, land a large number of new servers every day, power a vast marketplace of AI models, and meet the security and commerce needs of the most diverse customer base in cloud computing. We don't build on top of infrastructure. We are the infrastructure. AWS Compute and ML Services is entering its most ambitious era. AI workloads are demanding unprecedented scale, interconnect bandwidth, and placement intelligence. Confidential computing is raising the bar on what "secure by default" means at the hardware level — we're building toward a world where zero-trust isn't a feature, it's the architecture. Graviton is redefining the price-performance curve with every generation. And customers are pushing us to deliver bare-metal performance with full isolation, at global scale, with millisecond-level responsiveness. We need engineers who can lead large teams to deliver what customers want in the AI era. What Makes This Different You won't be optimizing an existing system. You'll be deciding what the system