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Amazon · 7 hours ago

Principal Engineer, Amazon | Multiple Locations, USA

positionBoston, MA
timeFull-time
remoteHybrid
seniorityLead/Staff
money$180K/yr - $311K/yr
date10+ years exp

Amazon is a leading technology company seeking a Principal Engineer to tackle complex engineering challenges. The role involves providing technical leadership, mentoring team members, and influencing multiple teams while working on large-scale distributed systems and advanced technologies.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)DeliveryE-CommerceFoundational AIRetail
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Responsibilities

Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects
Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
Fully and completely understand system inter-dependencies and limitations
Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices
Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members
Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience. You are a visionary leader, builder and an operator
Balance technical leadership and savvy with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology choices

Qualification

Large scale distributed systemsFull stack developmentComplex distributed systemsObject-oriented designData structuresAlgorithmsBusiness judgmentTechnical leadershipMentoringCollaboration

Required

10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms

Preferred

Deep hands-on technical expertise in at least one major technical area: large scale full stack development, building complex distributed systems, designing massive global networks

Benefits

Equity
Sign-on payments
Full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits

Company

Amazon

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Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
dateFounded in 1994
location
Seattle, Washington, USA
people-size10001+ employees
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https://amazon.com

H1B Sponsorship

Amazon has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
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2024 (21175)
2023 (19057)
2022 (24088)
2021 (12233)
2020 (14881)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$8.11B
Key Investors
AmazonKleiner Perkins
2023-01-03Post Ipo Debt· $8B
2001-07-24Post Ipo Equity· $100M
1997-05-15IPO

Leadership Team

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Douglas J. Herrington
CEO, Worldwide Amazon Stores
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Werner Vogels
VP & CTO
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