Principal UX Designer, AWS Search, Security, Observability, & Governance
Amazon · Bellevue, WA
$164,000–$244,000from the description
Jul 14, 2026
Bellevue, WA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual-contributor design role responsible for setting the overall UX direction for Amazon OpenSearch — a suite of search, observability, and AI-driven products. Day-to-day work spans defining agentic interaction patterns, contributing production code to a shared component library, shaping onboarding flows for enterprise migrations, and advising senior leadership on design strategy. Suited to a deeply technical designer with extensive B2B enterprise and data-intensive product experience.
Principal level · 12+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 20 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (web and digital interface designers). range 10–30
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $136,701 (middle half $77,232–$176,825). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
The posting lists three different metro salary ranges: Santa Clara/Los Angeles CA ($180,300–$244,000), New York NY ($180,300–$244,000), and Bellevue WA ($164,000–$221,800). The CBSA and compensation fields reflect the Bellevue/WA location as the primary anchor, but the role appears open across all three metros.
The 12+ years of experience requirement includes a sub-requirement of at least 4 years at Staff/Principal level; the overall years minimum is set to 12 (the overall floor).
React and TypeScript are listed together as preferred production-code languages ('React/TypeScript preferred') under the required technical fluency gate; they are emitted as separate skills since both are used in the stack, with React as the primary.
HTML, CSS, and JS are listed as a group under the required technical fluency gate ('HTML/CSS/JS'); JS is omitted as a standalone skill since React/TypeScript subsumes it, but HTML and CSS are retained as distinct named technologies.
Figma is not explicitly named in the JD — the posting notably emphasizes committing production code over Figma deliverables — but is implied by standard UX practice. It is not emitted as a required skill since it is not stated.
Agentic AI design (autonomous agents, human-in-the-loop workflows, progressive autonomy) appears under Preferred Qualifications.
AI-assisted design tools (Cursor, Claude Code, Kiro, v0) appear under Preferred Qualifications; Cursor is used as the primary name with the others as alternatives since they serve the same function in this context.
The alternative occupation code 15-1252 (Software Developers) is noted because the role explicitly requires committing production code (React/TypeScript, 178+ commits) — a meaningful software development component — though the primary day-to-day work is UX/interaction design.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): UX design, agentic AI design.
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