We are hiring Principal, Senior, and Distinguished Engineers to join AWS Foundational Data & Storage Services.
What You'll Do
This is a rare chance to own and ship the foundational services the rest of the cloud is built on - not features on top of a platform, but the storage, data, and caching layers that everything else depends on, operating at a scale no one else in the industry touches. You'll architect systems that store and serve exabytes of the world's most critical data, where a single design decision ripples across hundreds of millions of customers and millions of applications.
The problems here are unlike anywhere else. How do you deliver eleven nines of durability while adding net-new capabilities to a service that already stores hundreds of trillions of objects? How do you build a new cache product that serves S3 data at ultra-low latency and ultra-high throughput for GenAI and analytics workloads growing exponentially? How do you evolve block, object, and archival storage - and the analytics and database engines on top of them - without ever compromising the durability, availability, and latency guarantees customers have bet their businesses on? These are deep systems challenges solved in production, at a scale where the usual playbooks break down. You help write the new ones.
The systems you build here don't sit in a backlog - they're load-bearing for the internet: S3, EBS, and Glacier storing the data behind modern AI and analytics; Redshift, EMR, and SageMaker turning that data into insight; and the next generation of high-performance caching making all of it fast. You'll have direct influence over technical choices, minimal layers between you and decisions, and the opportunity to define what foundational data infrastructure looks like in the AI era.
Key job responsibilities
Deliver strategic technical projects and design new storage, data, and caching systems at massive scale
Lead architecture and engineering strategy for foundational services across S3, EBS, Glacier, and the analytics and database layer (Redshift, EMR, SageMaker, AWS Database Services)
Mentor and guide engineers while solving the hardest durability, availability, and latency problems hands-on
Work cross-functionally with Principal Engineers and teams across AWS Foundational Data & Storage Services
Scout and recruit top technical talent, actively growing the engineering community
Drive a strong engineering excellence and operational culture across all services and teams
Shape technical direction for systems where correctness, durability, and failure-mode ownership are first-class, measured in eleven nines
Balance deep systems expertise with strong analytical skills to make informed architectural decisions at scale
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
Basic Qualifications
10+ years of design, development engineering experience.
Experience collaborating across multiple organizations and influencing key outcomes.
Experience as a technical leader of multiple concurrent projects, driving strategic technical decisions.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with large-scale distributed systems, storage or database internals, high-throughput data systems, and performance-critical caching
Experience with big data and analytics engines, containerized microservices, serverless functions, and event-driven architecture
Hands-on experience designing for extreme durability, availability, and latency guarantees in production systems serving at planet scale
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, 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.
USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 230,100.00 - 311,200.00 USD annually
USA, CA, Irvine - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, CA, Santa Clara - 230,100.00 - 311,200.00 USD annually
USA, CA, Santa Monica - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, NY, New York - 220,100.00 - 297,700.00 USD annually
USA, VA, Arlington - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Bellevue - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
