Principal Engineer, Amazon | Multiple Locations, USA, Global Specialty Recruiting Team

About the role

At Amazon, Principal Engineers are both visionary leaders and hands-on builders. They work on the toughest problems, establish technical standards, and drive the overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and methodologies for products that delight our customers. This startup mentality means they don't take a conservative approach.

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. You are a visionary leader, builder, and an operator.
• Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices.

Requirements

• 12+ years of hands-on professional engineering development experience.
• Technical leadership and mentorship experience of engineering teams.

Qualifications

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

Skills

• Experience and background in developing large scale distributed systems.
• Specialist in AI/ML, mobile – iOS and Android, autonomous systems, compilers, databases, robotics, embedded systems, ASIC, hardware, firmware, aerospace, manufacturing, satellite communication and networking.

Benefits

Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

Pay

Base salary ranges from $200,100.00 to $270,600.00 annually, depending on location.

Schedule

Hours are flexible and can vary based on project needs.