Principal Engineer, AWS Builder Acceleration

Amazon
Seattle, Washington, USA2025-12-19ONSITE

About the job

Are you passionate about leveraging GenAI and advanced AWS technologies to simplify builder experience and accelerate innovations at AWS scale? We are building a new organization, AWS Builder Acceleration (AWSBA), focused on reducing toil and increasing building efficiency across AWS builders. Our mission is to accelerate AWS builder teams’ innovation by eliminating friction throughout the software development and operational lifecycle. Through AI based automated solutions and centralized service management, we address fundamental challenges including Keep The Light On (KTLO) service maintenance burden, launch readiness complexities, and recurring operational load. Through continuous collaboration with builder teams to identify emerging challenges, we shape our strategic roadmap to reinvent the development and operational ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Define and drive long term technical strategy for AWS Builder Acceleration org.

Identify and prioritize high-impact problems that impede AWS software development

Decompose complex builder problems into simple, straightforward and scalable solutions.

Develop a strategic roadmap that delivers meaningful improvements weekly while working toward long-term transformation

Establish team culture and coach other SDEs to set new standards for the ideal software builder experience

Partner closely with ASBX while focusing on AWS specific challenges

Make and defend decisions about scope and priorities, even when facing pressure from senior stakeholders

Qualifications

Minimum

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

10+ years of programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design

8+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

Proven track record of leading the delivery of large-scale, highly available, low latency, high quality systems

Experience in technical leadership role within a large organization

Preferred

Deep hands-on experience building software at AWS

Experience with software tooling and services supporting development lifecycle at scale

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to work with senior leaders across organizations to develop and champion long-term technical strategy

Experience building large-scale AI solutions