Principal Software Engineer, Device Cloud Core Services
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 16, 2026. First seen by Alion on Jul 30, 2026. Amazon scores A on the Alion truth index.
The Device Cloud Core Services organization owns and operates foundational services that cater to a number of critical customer experiences including device-identity, device registration, and device management. These solutions cater to all Amazon first-party devices and other third-party devices, smart-home devices, mobile applications and services that connect to the Amazon cloud on behalf of customer scenarios that originate through these devices.
The organization is looking for an experienced and talented Principal Engineer that has experience and passion in building large-scale web service solutions and has a penchant on building IoT cloud solutions.
As an Amazon.com Principal Engineer you’ll be a technical leader. You’ll help establish technical standards and drive Amazon’s overall technical architecture and engineering practices. You’ll work on Amazon’s hardest problems, building high quality, architecturally sound systems that are aligned with our business needs. You’ll think globally when building systems, ensuring Amazon.com builds high performing, scalable systems that fit well together. Amazon.com Principal Engineers are pragmatic visionaries who can translate business needs into workable technology solutions. Your expertise is deep and broad; you are hands on, producing both detailed technical work and high-level architectural designs. As a PE you get to connect with a strong PE community at Amazon, contributing and learning from PEs across the company.
As a PE in the Amazon Device Management Systems org you will deliver solutions to help our enterprise customers run their businesses effectively. You will define the technical strategy, identify the right long-term architecture for the device-businesses roadmap. While building the architecture, you will be required to focus on the following tenets: security, availability, simplicity and efficiency. While you will have a high visibility as you will work with several engineering teams and their technical and product senior leadership, you will need exceptionally strong technical skills, strong business acumen, analytical skills, and be able to deal with ambiguity in a fast-paced environment. You will lead the architecture to support enterprise use cases.
Key job responsibilities
- Define the long term technical strategy and architecture vision for device management, leveraging new technologies to deliver features to our customers
- Think big and continuously pitch for foundational solutions that will help device businesses to use these solutions, where applicable, instead of building their own.
- Define technical approach to ensure data privacy is considered while providing foundational solutions.
- Partner with each device team to understand their customer needs and influence adoption of new services
- Re-architect our services to support enterprise use cases
- Possess expert knowledge in performance, scalability, enterprise system architecture, and engineering best practices.
- Assist in the career development of others, actively mentoring individuals and the Amazon developer community on advanced technical issues and helping managers guide the career growth of their team members.
- Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.
Basic qualifications
- 10+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- Knowledge of object-oriented design, data structures, and algorithms
- Proven track record of leading large-scale projects
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Preferred qualifications
- Experience designing and building large-scale systems in a multi-tiered, distributed environment
- Experience influencing groups outside their own VP from architecture perspective
- Ability and willingness to multi-task and learn new technologies quickly 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.