Principal Engineer, Quick – Structured Data Stack

Amazon
Seattle, WA
Category Engineering
Job Description
Role Overview

The role requires a Principal Engineer to own the full structured data stack powering agentic AI, providing full-stack technical leadership and balancing architectural transformation with stability and reliability.

What You Will Do

Diagnose deep systemic problems, shape product direction, define multi-year technical strategy, and drive execution across teams, while operating at a scale where correctness and performance determine customer trust.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate thrives in ambiguity, can move fluidly between low-level system diagnosis and high-level architectural vision, and has a proven track record of evolving large-scale production systems without disrupting customers.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 8+ years of programming with at least one modern programming language experience
  • 8+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems experience
  • Experience operating and evolving large-scale distributed systems in production
  • Experience as a technical leader, driving architecture and engineering excellence across multiple teams

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Sign-on payments
  • Restricted stock units (RSUs)
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