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.
We are seeking an experienced principal engineer to lead AWSBA to simplify and accelerate the software development experience for 20,000+ AWS engineers. You will shape AWS builder experience from the ground up with a singular mission: make software development, deployment and maintenance simpler across AWS. Success requires building services and tools that reduce friction, listening closely to what your internal customers tell you gets in the way of building, influencing the Amazon Software Builder Experience (ASBX) roadmap, and driving transformation for engineering teams. You will harness advanced technologies, including AI-powered tooling, agentic workflows, and innovative AWS solutions, to create next-generation software builder experience at AWS scale.
This role requires ownership, autonomy, and an ability to deliver results. You should be a self-starter with a bias towards independent problem solving. Clear communication and prioritization will be important as you partner with stakeholders to plan, design, and deliver game changing builder experiences to accelerate innovation. Your passion for improving builder experiences, and proven experience managing complex technology projects, will help you make strong strategic judgments. Your expertise is deep and broad. You start with the customers (builders) and work backwards to develop a coherent vision for services and tools that support the efficiency, flexibility and scale that builders expect from us. You have built and operated systems that support high-end business complexity and scale with simple and elegant solutions that are highly decoupled. You will be responsible for setting up the technical vision for AWS Builder Acceleration org and join a select team of innovators creating the next generation of AWS builder experiences that will shape the company's future.
About You You should have deep expertise in the architecture and business use of AWS technologies. You recognize the transformative potential of generative AI in software development and are excited to pioneer AI-powered builder experiences that fundamentally change how developers write, debug, deploy and operate code at scale. You remain technically hands-on and close to the technology despite your leadership role. You're passionate about developer experience and get frustrated by inefficiencies that make building software unnecessarily difficult. You understand the challenges AWS developers face today and have a clear vision for improvement. You spend time listening to teams across AWS and validating that your teams are working on the right problems, and the solutions meaningfully simplify the AWS developer experience across all teams. You should be an authority at crafting, implementing, and operating scalable solutions to increase building efficiency across AWS builders. You are a visionary leader, builder and operator. You have experience leading or contributing to multiple simultaneous software development initiatives. You are able to balance technical leadership with strong business judgment to make the right decisions about technology. You’ll strive for simplicity and will demonstrate significant creativity. You have strong backbone - able to voice opinions confidently, make difficult decisions, and defend your position when working with senior leaders across AWS.
Key job responsibilities
Key job 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
Unique Opportunities
- Re-imagine how developers build and operate the software that underpins the world's largest cloud
- Shape a new organization from day one
- Drive significant transformation across AWS engineering
- Pioneer the use of cutting-edge generative AI technologies to create the next generation of builder experiences
Basic Qualifications
Basic qualifications
- 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 Qualifications
Preferred qualifications
- 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
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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $180,100/year in our lowest geographic market up to $311,200/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.