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Job overview
Principal Engineers provide technical leadership at Amazon, establishing technical standards and driving technical architecture, engineering practices, and methodologies. They tackle difficult problems by building high-quality, architecturally sound systems aligned with business needs, and design globally scalable systems that fit together. The role combines hands-on technical work with high-level architectural design and translates business needs into workable technology solutions.
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Description
Principal Engineers provide technical leadership at Amazon.com. They help establish technical standards and drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and engineering methodologies. They work on our hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. They think globally when building systems, ensuring Amazon.com builds high performing, scalable systems that fit well together. Principal Engineers are pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Their expertise is deep and broad. They are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs.
Basic Qualifications
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10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
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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)
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Our inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.
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 https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits .
USA, WA, Seattle - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
How this job compares
Set against the 1,916 open Principal Engineer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$200–271K/yr
- Washington median$200–287K/yr84 salary ranges
- US median$150–264K/yr1,629 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $235K, is close to the Washington median midpoint ($235K) — in the middle half of Principal Engineer salary ranges in Washington.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 90 open Principal Engineer jobs in Washington and 1,916 across the US. 14% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Washington
- Amazon (this employer)14 open
- Meta14 open
- Microsoft Corporation9 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 10 years of experience; Principal Engineer postings that state a minimum ask for 8 years at the median (1,635 postings).
- Education
- 787 of the 1,916 open Principal Engineer jobs (41%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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