principal Software Engineer hybrid · Posted May 19, 2026
$143,700 – $194,400
USD per year

About this role

Amazon is hiring a principal-level Software Engineer based in Seattle, WA. The posting calls out experience with Java, C#, AWS, Distributed Systems. Compensation is listed at $143,700–$194,400 per year.

Role
Software Engineer
Function
software engineering
Level
principal
Track
hybrid
Employment
Full-time
Location
Seattle, WA
Department
Software Development
Posted
May 19, 2026

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Job description

from Amazon careers

Amazon Web Services is a dynamic and rapidly growing business within Amazon.com. We are building some of the largest and most complex distributed systems in the world, and we need world class people to help us implement and operate them. We provide organizations with building block web services that allow them to innovate faster and operate their software more cost-effectively. These services-in-the-cloud include on-demand compute capacity, storage, content delivery, querying of structured data, message queuing, and more. The AWS Secrets Management team is responsible for managing and distributing credentials and secrets across millions of hosts deployed for internal Amazon use and AWS customers. We are building and delivering the next generation of cloud computing security that supports the public AWS offerings like S3, EC2, and CloudFront. We are innovating new ways of building massively scalable distributed security systems involving secrets and credentials management. We enable our customers to control some of their sensitive secrets and credentials in the AWS cloud. SDEs at Amazon work on real world problems on a global scale, own their systems end to end and influence the direction of our technology that impacts hundreds of millions customers around the world. At Amazon an SDE can expect…

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