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. Despite the company's size, it maintains a startup mentality, embracing innovation and risk-taking.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects.
• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straightforward solutions.
• Fully and completely understand system interdependencies 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 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, retirement plans, paid time off, and parental leave. For more information, visit here.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is listed below. Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location.

Schedule

Work hours and schedule details are not specified in the job posting.