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Senior Principal Engineer, Compute Abstractions, Compute Abstractions

Seattle, Washington, United States💼 Full-time💰 $240,100–$324,800🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Technical owner for AWS container products (ECS, EKS, Fargate, Batch, ECR), raising abstraction levels to enable seamless workload execution and platform evolution without downtime.

Role type

Senior Principal Engineer (Containers & Compute Abstractions)

Builds

AWS container orchestration, scheduling, isolation, and registry systems

Domain

Cloud Infrastructure / Container Orchestration

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Container orchestration, Kubernetes internals, scheduling and bin-packing, runtime and isolation, registry and supply-chain systems, AI-driven system prototyping, open-source community leadership, technical strategy, cross-organizational influence

Preferred skills

Experience migrating high-revenue platforms to new abstraction layers, hands-on AI system development, public technical presence

Technologies

AWS ECS, AWS EKS, AWS Fargate, AWS Batch, AWS ECR, containerd, Kubernetes

Responsibilities

Define technical direction and standards for container products; design and review orchestration and scheduling systems; integrate container products into a unified offering; prototype and ship AI-driven capabilities; mentor engineering teams; engage with customers to inform architecture; contribute to upstream open-source projects

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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