Principal Engineer

Job description

DESCRIPTION

Amazon Web Services provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure platform in the cloud that powers hundreds of thousands of businesses in 190 countries around the world. To meet the growing demand for AWS Services around the globe, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people. If you have strong IT infrastructure and/or programming experience, and can communicate highly technical concepts to audiences at different stages in the AWS journey, we'd like to speak with you.
As a Principal Engineer, you'll be a technical leader for a major new Cloud Solutions group. You'll help establish technical standards and drive overall technical architecture and engineering practices. You'll work on the team's hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. You'll think globally when building systems, ensuring AWS builds high performing, scalable systems that fit well together. AWS Principals are pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; you're hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.
The ideal candidate will be a visionary leader, builder and operator. You'll have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous product development efforts. You'll be able to balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgement to make the right decisions about technology choices. You'll strive for simplicity, and demonstrate significant creativity and high judgement.

Desired profile

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

· 15+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience and executive level presence
· 5+ years of experience as the lead technologist/architect for a major product or service
· Repeated success leading architecturally significant projects from inception through launch, including communicating with users, other technical teams, and management to collect requirements, describe software product features, and produce technical designs
· Demonstrated expertise in system-level design, and experience with web services and service oriented architectures
· Experience mentoring/training the engineering community on complex technical issues
· Computer science fundamentals (OO design, data structures & algorithms, problem solving)
· A Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Engineering, or Mathematics.