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You've spent your career solving hard problems. Here's one worth your next decade.
The database is the heartbeat of every application ever built, and at AWS, we don't just run databases, we reinvent them. Our database products collectively serve hundreds of millions of workloads, process trillions of transactions, and store some of the most critical data on earth — making us the database infrastructure of the internet. AWS Database Services is a $17B+ business and one of the fastest-growing parts of AWS, where the problems are not incremental, the scale is not theoretical, and the stakes are genuinely high. You'll work alongside some of the most accomplished database engineers in the world, with access to infrastructure, data, and customer relationships that don't exist anywhere else — and the autonomy to define what "excellent" looks like, not just execute against someone else's definition of it. We're hiring multiple Principal Engineers across this portfolio, and we're looking for builders who want to shape products used by millions of real customers.
What You'll Work On
Three forces are reshaping this landscape right now: AI-assisted development is changing how engineers build on top of databases; agentic AI is creating entirely new requirements for low-latency, high-consistency data access; and the boundary between operational and analytical data is collapsing. You will be at the center of all three — not as an observer, but as an architect and builder.
We're building a bench of exceptional technical leaders and matching each person to the area where their expertise and interests will have the most impact. Whether your passion is relational engines, NoSQL at planetary scale, graph traversal, time-series workloads, or the convergence of operational and analytical data — there is a home for you here.
Our portfolio spans:
- Amazon Aurora & RDS — The world's most widely deployed managed relational databases, serving enterprise workloads that cannot fail
- Amazon DynamoDB — A single-digit millisecond NoSQL engine operating at a scale most engineers will never encounter anywhere else
- Amazon DocumentDB — MongoDB-compatible document storage built for the cloud
- Amazon Neptune — Graph database powering knowledge graphs, fraud detection, and recommendation engines at scale
- Amazon ElastiCache & MemoryDB — In-memory data stores where microseconds matter
- Amazon Timestream — Purpose-built time-series for IoT, DevOps, and industrial telemetry
- Amazon Keyspaces — Serverless Cassandra-compatible storage at AWS scale
We are building the database infrastructure for the next generation of AI-native applications. If that's the problem you want to work on, we want to talk.
Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Engineer, you are a technical owner — not a consultant, not a reviewer. You will:
- Define architecture for services that cannot go down, cannot lose data, and must scale to meet demand that grows faster than most companies ever see
- Drive technical strategy across your service area, shaping roadmap, investment decisions, and the direction of engineering teams
- Solve the unsolved — the distributed systems problems, the consistency models, the performance cliffs, the failure modes that don't have a textbook answer yet
- Build, prototype, and ship — from early-stage experiments and proof-of-concepts to production systems trusted by the world's largest enterprises
- Raise the bar for the engineers around you through design reviews, mentorship, and the kind of technical judgment that only comes from having done this before
- Engage directly with customers running their most critical workloads on your systems — and translate what you learn into better architecture
- Invent — evaluate emerging technologies, prototype new approaches, and push the boundaries of what managed database services can do, including how AI reshapes the way databases are built, queried, and operated
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
What We're Looking For
We're not looking for one type of engineer. We're looking for depth, judgment, and the drive to own hard problems. Across our openings, we value:
- A track record of technical decisions that held up — at scale, under pressure, over time
- The instinct to build first: you prototype to learn, ship to validate, and iterate without waiting for perfect conditions
- The ability to influence without authority and earn trust through technical credibility
- Experience working across organizational boundaries to drive outcomes that no single team could achieve alone
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and a bias toward action
- Curiosity about how AI is changing the way engineers build on and with databases — and the drive to be ahead of that curve, not behind it
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Deep expertise in one or more of: distributed systems, database internals, storage engines, query optimization, replication protocols, consensus algorithms, or high-performance systems
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 230,100.00 - 311,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, BELLEVUE - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Bellevue - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, REDMOND - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Redmond - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
DESCRIPTION
You've spent your career solving hard problems. Here's one worth your next decade.
The database is the heartbeat of every application ever built, and at AWS, we don't just run databases, we reinvent them. Our database products collectively serve hundreds of millions of workloads, process trillions of transactions, and store some of the most critical data on earth — making us the database infrastructure of the internet. AWS Database Services is a $17B+ business and one of the fastest-growing parts of AWS, where the problems are not incremental, the scale is not theoretical, and the stakes are genuinely high. You'll work alongside some of the most accomplished database engineers in the world, with access to infrastructure, data, and customer relationships that don't exist anywhere else — and the autonomy to define what "excellent" looks like, not just execute against someone else's definition of it. We're hiring multiple Principal Engineers across this portfolio, and we're looking for builders who want to shape products used by millions of real customers.
What You'll Work On
Three forces are reshaping this landscape right now: AI-assisted development is changing how engineers build on top of databases; agentic AI is creating entirely new requirements for low-latency, high-consistency data access; and the boundary between operational and analytical data is collapsing. You will be at the center of all three — not as an observer, but as an architect and builder.
We're building a bench of exceptional technical leaders and matching each person to the area where their expertise and interests will have the most impact. Whether your passion is relational engines, NoSQL at planetary scale, graph traversal, time-series workloads, or the convergence of operational and analytical data — there is a home for you here.
Our portfolio spans:
- Amazon Aurora & RDS — The world's most widely deployed managed relational databases, serving enterprise workloads that cannot fail
- Amazon DynamoDB — A single-digit millisecond NoSQL engine operating at a scale most engineers will never encounter anywhere else
- Amazon DocumentDB — MongoDB-compatible document storage built for the cloud
- Amazon Neptune — Graph database powering knowledge graphs, fraud detection, and recommendation engines at scale
- Amazon ElastiCache & MemoryDB — In-memory data stores where microseconds matter
- Amazon Timestream — Purpose-built time-series for IoT, DevOps, and industrial telemetry
- Amazon Keyspaces — Serverless Cassandra-compatible storage at AWS scale
We are building the database infrastructure for the next generation of AI-native applications. If that's the problem you want to work on, we want to talk.
Key job responsibilities
As a Principal Engineer, you are a technical owner — not a consultant, not a reviewer. You will:
- Define architecture for services that cannot go down, cannot lose data, and must scale to meet demand that grows faster than most companies ever see
- Drive technical strategy across your service area, shaping roadmap, investment decisions, and the direction of engineering teams
- Solve the unsolved — the distributed systems problems, the consistency models, the performance cliffs, the failure modes that don't have a textbook answer yet
- Build, prototype, and ship — from early-stage experiments and proof-of-concepts to production systems trusted by the world's largest enterprises
- Raise the bar for the engineers around you through design reviews, mentorship, and the kind of technical judgment that only comes from having done this before
- Engage directly with customers running their most critical workloads on your systems — and translate what you learn into better architecture
- Invent — evaluate emerging technologies, prototype new approaches, and push the boundaries of what managed database services can do, including how AI reshapes the way databases are built, queried, and operated
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
What We're Looking For
We're not looking for one type of engineer. We're looking for depth, judgment, and the drive to own hard problems. Across our openings, we value:
- A track record of technical decisions that held up — at scale, under pressure, over time
- The instinct to build first: you prototype to learn, ship to validate, and iterate without waiting for perfect conditions
- The ability to influence without authority and earn trust through technical credibility
- Experience working across organizational boundaries to drive outcomes that no single team could achieve alone
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and a bias toward action
- Curiosity about how AI is changing the way engineers build on and with databases — and the drive to be ahead of that curve, not behind it
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Deep expertise in one or more of: distributed systems, database internals, storage engines, query optimization, replication protocols, consensus algorithms, or high-performance systems
Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
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.
The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.
USA, CA, East Palo Alto - 230,100.00 - 311,200.00 USD annually
USA, WA, BELLEVUE - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Bellevue - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, REDMOND - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Redmond - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, SEATTLE - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
USA, WA, Seattle - 200,100.00 - 270,600.00 USD annually
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Translate your credentials into U.S. equivalency
Chilean teaching licenses and graduate degrees in educational administration need formal equivalency evaluation before U.S. school districts will consider sponsoring you. Request an official credential evaluation from a NACES-recognized agency that specifies your degree level and field.
Target districts with documented H-1B1 filing history
Large urban and suburban school districts, charter management organizations, and private school networks are the employers most likely to have in-house HR capacity to file an H-1B1 petition. Use Migrate Mate to filter for employers with verified H-1B1 Chile sponsorship history for education roles.
Confirm the role meets specialty occupation standards
A Principal position qualifies for H-1B1 Chile status only if the district requires a specific bachelor's or advanced degree for the role, not just any degree. Check the O*NET occupation profile for Principal to confirm the education requirement language before applying.
Request the LCA before your offer letter is finalized
Your employer must file a certified Labor Condition Application with DOL before the H-1B1 visa petition can proceed. Ask your district's HR team to begin the LCA process simultaneously with your background clearances so credentialing delays don't push your start date into the next school year.
Benchmark your offered salary against OFLC Wage Search
The LCA legally requires your employer to pay the prevailing wage for Principal roles in your specific metropolitan area. Run the OFLC Wage Search yourself using your job title and work location to verify the offered salary meets the DOL wage level before signing.
Prepare for consular review of your supervisory authority
Consular officers scrutinize Principal applications closely because the role blends administrative and instructional duties. Bring documentation showing you'll hold degree-dependent authority over curriculum decisions, not just general management, to demonstrate the specialty occupation requirement is genuinely met.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Principal role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B1 Chile?
Yes, if your school or district requires at least a bachelor's degree in education, educational leadership, or school administration as a standard condition of employment for the role. Positions where any degree is acceptable regardless of field typically don't qualify. USCIS and consular officers look at whether the degree requirement is specific to the occupation, not incidental to it.
How does the H-1B1 Chile visa compare to H-1B for Principal jobs?
For Chilean nationals, the H-1B1 Chile is materially better for securing a Principal role. There's no lottery, so your petition isn't rejected by random selection before an officer even reviews it. The annual cap of 1,400 visas for Chile has never been exhausted, and the application goes directly to the consulate rather than through USCIS, which typically means a faster decision timeline.
How do I find school districts that sponsor H-1B1 Chile visas for Principal positions?
Migrate Mate filters job listings specifically for employers with H-1B1 Chile sponsorship history, so you're not cold-applying to districts that have never filed an H-1B1 petition. Focus your search on large public school systems, private school networks, and charter management organizations, which are more likely to have HR departments experienced with specialty occupation petitions.
Can my school district sponsor me for H-1B1 Chile if it has never filed a work visa before?
Yes. Any U.S. employer can file an H-1B1 visa petition for the first time, but the district will need to work with an immigration attorney or filing service to complete the Labor Condition Application with DOL and prepare the consular package. First-time filers often need additional lead time, so raise the sponsorship question early in your hiring discussions, ideally before the formal offer stage.
What documentation should I bring to my H-1B1 consular interview as a Principal candidate?
Bring your certified Labor Condition Application, your official credential evaluation confirming your Chilean degree equivalency, transcripts, your employment offer letter specifying your title and supervisory responsibilities, and proof that the role requires a specific degree field. Consular officers may ask you to explain how your day-to-day duties as a Principal depend on specialized educational knowledge rather than general management experience.