Senior Principal Engineer, Compute Abstractions, Compute Abstractions

This is a Senior Principal Engineer role for Containers in AWS Compute Abstractions a technical owner across AWS ECS AWS EKS AWS Fargate AWS Batch and AWS ECR. The role raises the level of abstraction until the operator describes a workload and the platform runs it well underneath on a platform that cannot stop running while it changes.

Key job responsibilities
Own technical direction for Containers architecture standards and what gets built and just as often what gets stopped.
Go deep in the work design reviews code operational readiness on orchestration scheduling isolation and registry systems.
Own the integrated Containers strategy how the products fit together as one offering and the technical direction of the container products across ECS EKS Fargate Batch and ECR.
Drive the integration work that makes the container products stronger together than apart and make that the fastest path for the teams building it.
Move AI-driven capabilities in Containers from prototype into production owned and operated by the organization.
Build prototype and ship settle disputed direction by making the thing.
Raise the bar across the Containers engineering teams through design reviews mentorship and technical judgment.
Engage directly with customers running their most critical container workloads and turn what you learn into architecture.
Contribute to and shape the open-source projects Containers depends on containerd Kubernetes and represent the organization in those communities.


A day in the life
A morning goes to a scheduling and bin-packing review where a placement change would lift host utilization but risks a regression in task-rebalancing behavior customers rely on; the call sits with this role to make and defend. Midday it prototypes the change and lands the direction in code. It closes in the container open-source community steering an RFC on a project the portfolio depends on toward the architecture Containers is moving to.

10 years of design and development engineering experience.
Experience collaborating across multiple organizations and influencing key outcomes.
Experience as a technical leader of multiple concurrent projects driving strategic technical decisions.
A track record of technical decisions that held up at scale under pressure over time.
The ability to influence without authority and earn trust through technical credibility.


Deep expertise in container orchestration Kubernetes internals scheduling and bin-packing runtime and isolation or registry and supply-chain systems.
Experience turning a mature high-revenue platform toward a new abstraction layer while it stayed in production.
Hands-on experience building and iterating on AI-driven systems from prototype through production.
Public technical presence standards open source or published work the industry builds on.


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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at WA Seattle - 240100.00 - 324800.00 USD annually