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Principal roles in U.S. schools require a state-issued administrator license and a graduate degree in education leadership, both of which satisfy H-1B1 Singapore specialty occupation requirements. Singaporean educators can apply directly at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore without a lottery, making H-1B1 sponsorship a realistic path for qualified school leaders.
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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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Verify your credential equivalency early
Singapore's National Institute of Education postgraduate qualifications generally map to U.S. master's-level programs, but your employer's HR team will need documentation confirming equivalency. Request an official academic credential evaluation from a NACES-recognized agency before your first employer conversation.
Target districts with active H-1B1 filing history
Use Migrate Mate to filter Principal openings by employers who have previously sponsored H-1B1 Singapore visas, so you're applying where the hiring team already understands the consular process and LCA filing requirements.
Check the prevailing wage before negotiating salary
Your employer must file a Labor Condition Application certifying your salary meets the DOL prevailing wage for Principals in that geographic area. Run the OFLC Wage Search for SOC code 11-9032 before entering offer negotiations so you're not caught short by LCA compliance requirements.
Confirm the school district can sponsor nonimmigrant workers
Public school districts are public entities and some have internal policies or state procurement rules that complicate employer-sponsored nonimmigrant visas. Ask the district's legal counsel or HR director directly whether they've sponsored H-1B1 visa or H-1B visa workers before accepting an offer.
Secure state administrator licensure before your interview
Most U.S. states require Principals to hold a state-issued administrator or superintendent certificate. Applying for reciprocity or a provisional license from Singapore credentials takes two to four months, so start the state licensing process before you submit applications.
Prepare your consular packet once the LCA is certified
Unlike H-1B, H-1B1 Singapore is processed directly at the U.S. Embassy in Singapore after your employer's LCA is certified by DOL. Gather your DS-160, certified LCA, appointment letter, and degree transcripts immediately after certification so you're not delaying your start date.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Principal role qualify as a specialty occupation for H-1B1 Singapore purposes?
Yes. The Principal occupation, classified under SOC code 11-9032, requires a master's degree or higher in educational leadership, school administration, or a directly related field. That degree requirement satisfies the specialty occupation standard under the H-1B1 Singapore visa, provided your employer documents the educational requirement in the Labor Condition Application.
How does the H-1B1 Singapore visa differ from H-1B for a Principal role?
H-1B1 Singapore has no lottery, no USCIS petition, and a dedicated annual cap of 5,400 visas that has never been exhausted. Your application goes directly to the U.S. Embassy in Singapore after your employer files a certified LCA with DOL. H-1B requires a lottery, USCIS adjudication, and carries a multi-month processing timeline that H-1B1 Singapore avoids entirely.
Which types of U.S. employers typically sponsor H-1B1 Singapore visas for Principals?
Private K-12 schools, international schools, charter school networks, and some independent school districts sponsor Principals on H-1B1 Singapore visas. Public districts in certain states face procurement or board approval constraints that slow the process. International schools with existing global hiring pipelines are often most familiar with the consular-based H-1B1 process.
How can I find Principal jobs with H-1B1 Singapore sponsorship?
Migrate Mate filters Principal openings by employers with verified H-1B1 Singapore and H-1B sponsorship history, so you can focus applications on schools and districts that have actually gone through the LCA and consular process before. That filing history is a strong signal that the employer understands the requirements and won't withdraw the offer once they learn what sponsorship involves.
Can I switch from H-1B1 Singapore to H-1B later if I want a path to a green card?
Yes. H-1B1 Singapore does not support dual intent, meaning you can't pursue a green card while holding it. If your employer wants to sponsor you for permanent residence, you'd need to transition to H-1B status first. Your employer would register you in the next H-1B lottery, and you'd continue in H-1B1 status until selected and approved.