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Principal Engineer | Multiple Locations, USA, Global Specialty Recruiting Team

Jet.com · Seattle, Washington, USA · On-site

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About Jet.com

Backed by General Catalyst.

About the role

If you have a background in developing large-scale distributed systems, or are a specialist in any of the following areas, we would love to review your application: compute virtualization, server provisioning and fleet management, high-performance data plane engineering, control plane and orchestration systems, networking, and cloud infrastructure at scale. Serve as a technical leader on our most demanding, cross-functional projects. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

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At Amazon, Principal Engineers are both organizational leaders and hands-on builders. As Amazon’s most senior individual contributors, Principal Engineers work on our hardest problems, help establish technical standards and drive the overall technical architecture, engineering practices, and engineering methodologies for products that delight our customers. While many companies this size take their foot-off the gas pedal, at Amazon, it’s still Day 1. This startup mentality, does not admit the luxury of a conservative approach.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is one of the foundational services of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a cornerstone of modern cloud computing. Since launching in 2006, EC2 has provided secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud — giving customers virtual servers ("instances") with complete control over their computing resources and the broadest choice of processor, storage, networking, and operating system configurations.

Today, EC2 operates at extraordinary scale, serving millions of customers worldwide — from individual developers to the largest enterprises and public-sector organizations. It offers thousands of instance types optimized for...

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