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
-10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
-Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
-Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment (Service Oriented Architecture)
The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, BC, Vancouver - 185,400.00 - 309,600.00 CAD annually
CAN, ON, Toronto - 185,400.00 - 309,600.00 CAD annually
