Principal Solutions Developer , Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE)

About the role

The Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team helps customers create early iterations of products and solutions, often exploring new technical grounds. You will partner with customers and AWS account and service teams to craft highly scalable, flexible, and resilient solutions that address customer business problems and accelerate AWS adoption.

Responsibilities

• Review technical designs for upcoming prototypes to identify improvement opportunities and emerging trends where the team can invest and simplify solutions.
• Collaborate with team members, specialists, and service teams to deliver results, serving as project lead on some engagements and contributing part-time on others.
• Work across industry verticals including automotive, energy, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, and media and entertainment.
• Shape and build prototypes across domains including Machine Learning, Agentic Design, Serverless Architecture, and multi-modal Generative AI.
• Represent AWS in customer meetings, serving as both the AWS voice and customer advocate.
• Decompose significantly complex challenges into elegant solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes.
• Own key development tasks from design through implementation with minimal supervision, delivering to a high standard.
• Establish trust by defining clear paths forward and actively reviewing others' proposals, speaking up when architectural choices need improvement.
• Look across the team's technical body of work to identify ways to invent and simplify, defining experiments and projects that you and others in the team can execute on.
• Optimize developer-related processes and identify improvement opportunities that benefit the broader organization.
• Lead by example and continuously seek better ways to apply emerging technology to code development.

Requirements

• 15+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing.
• Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement.
• Experience with programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java or equivalent.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent.
• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent.
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers.
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud.
• Experienced with designing, building, launching and operating solutions from concept to production.
• Masters degree in computer science with proven experience building agentic designs for production scale is highly preferred.

Skills

• Exceptional judgment, ability to think big while diving deep, and relentless focus on raising the bar for technical excellence.
• Ability to connect technology with measurable business value, influence adoption decisions, and accelerate customer success with AWS.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits including health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, and parental leave.

Pay

Base salary range: $182,800.00 - $247,300.00 USD annually

Schedule

Full-time