The AWS Industry Products (AIP) team directly collaborates with strategic customers to build new, industry-specific products that directly impact and transform industries at AWS scale.
We are a team of innovators that tackle difficult problems, and build products through fast iteration in a start-up like environment.
We are looking for a principal engineer with expertise, ambition, and passion in solving difficult problems, specifically for the automotive industry.
In particular, experience in large distributed systems, near-real-time data ingestion and processing, in-vehicle / embedded software, regulated industries, or generative AI / LLMs are all big pluses.
As a senior technical leader, you will join Amazon's most senior Technical Community, a cross-company collective of Principal, Senior Principal and Distinguished Engineers.
This group helps establish technical standards and drives AWS's overall technical architecture and engineering practices.
These leaders work on AWS' hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs.
AWS' senior technical contributors are pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions.
Their expertise is deep and broad; hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs but, driven to engage with business problems and leaders to invent simple solutions with real-world application
Key job responsibilities
- Ownership for overall system architecture, technology, scalability, reliability, and performance for key AIP services in Automotive.
- Demonstrate technology thought leadership directly with AWS customers and at Industry Events
- Facilitate technical collaboration across AIP services and work with other PE's across AIP and Amazon.
- Mentor and develop engineers, help define and grow the technical culture, and assist in attracting and retaining top engineering talent
- Demonstrate both Amazon LP's and Amazon Principal Engineering Tenets :
About the team
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :
Santa Clara, CA, USA
We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations :
Santa Clara, CA, USA
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)
- Master's degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience influencing groups outside their own VP from architecture perspective
- Experience optimizing for short term execution while planning for long term technical capabilities
- Experience with Automotive industry related technology