# Senior Principal Engineer, EC2 Core Compute

EC2 Core Compute is hiring a Senior Principal Engineer to own the technical direction of the platforms and the virtualization stack behind the EC2 general-purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized and burstable instance families. The organization launches the C, M, R, X and T instance families across Intel, AMD and AWS Graviton processors and delivers the Nitro Hypervisor that runs them. It also engineers the bare metal variants that customers use to move the last of their on-premises workloads to AWS. Engineering teams in Berlin, Seattle and other locations around the globe contribute to every launch, and this role is the single technical owner who makes those teams build one coherent platform. You will report directly to the Director of EC2 Core Compute and sit with the EC2 team in Berlin. You set the multi-year technical direction for the organization, you own the architectural decisions that cross Director and VP boundaries inside EC2, and you grow engineers across every tenure level, from new graduates to Principal Engineers. You stay hands-on: you read and produce code, you review the designs that decide how a new processor generation becomes an instance family, and you ta

- **Id**: 4021311
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-senior-principal-engineer-ec2-core-compute>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Berlin, Germany
- **Countries**: DE
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-09T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T15:05:33Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 32
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7453
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- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Advertising, Cloud Platforms (IaaS & PaaS), Logistics, Streaming & OTT Platforms

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4570
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.889
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 30
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Hyper-V** — Optional: yes
- **KVM** — Optional: yes
- **Xen** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 32

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: master
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T15:05:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 44
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.802
- **P room**: 0.55
- **Age days**: 32
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T16:45:27Z

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