Principal Solutions Developer , Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE)

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking a Principal Solutions Developer to join their Prototyping and Customer Engineering (PACE) team. This role involves partnering with customers to craft scalable solutions and drive AWS adoption through innovative prototypes across various domains such as Machine Learning and AI.

Responsibilities:

• You must be hands-on with deep experience and knowledge, articulate in communication, and capable of mentoring team members
• You will operate with complete independence in ambiguous environments where business objectives are emergent and problems are novel
• You will decompose significantly complex challenges into elegant solutions that deliver measurable business outcomes, with your work influencing entire organizations and establishing patterns that become reference architectures and reusable solutions
• You combine design and architecture knowledge with development capability, comfortable at both the whiteboard and keyboard
• You'll push the technical bar by taking initiative to learn new topics and experiment across domains such as AI, serverless, Agentic Design, and Physical AI in enterprise contexts
• You'll own key development tasks from design through implementation with minimal supervision, delivering to a high standard
• You'll establish trust by defining clear paths forward and actively reviewing others' proposals, speaking up when architectural choices need improvement
• You will look across the team's technical body of work to identify ways to invent and simplify, defining experiments and projects that you and others in the team can execute on
• You will improve your scale and impact across the team and organization with a technical focus
• You'll review technical designs for upcoming prototypes to identify improvement opportunities and emerging trends where the team can invest and simplify solutions
• During customer prototype engagements, you'll collaborate with developers, program managers, and specialists to deliver results—serving as project lead on some engagements and contributing part-time on others

Requirements:

• 15+ years of specific technology domain areas (e.g. software development, cloud computing, systems engineering, infrastructure, security, networking, data & analytics) experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent
• Experience developing technology solutions and evangelising end-to-end technology roadmaps that guide IT transformations toward cloud computing
• Experience in cloud architecture and CXO level engagement
• Experience with programming languages like Python, JavaScript, Go, .Net, Java or equivalent
• Knowledge of distributed systems design and implementation or equivalent
• Knowledge of large scale automation and workflow management or equivalent
• Knowledge of presentations and whiteboarding skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with internal and external executives, IT management, and developers
• Experience architecting, migrating, transforming or modernizing customer requirements to the cloud
• Experienced with designing, building, launching and operating solutions from concept to production
• Masters degree in computer science with proven experience building agentic designs for production scale is highly preferred