Arlington, VA

Salary
Posted
Jul 13, 2026
Location
Arlington, VA
Last confirmed open
Jul 21, 2026

What this job asks for AI summary

A senior engineering management role leading a roughly 40-person organization responsible for orchestrating AWS's global bill run process — scheduling, sequencing, monitoring, and delivering billing artifacts for millions of accounts. The core technical challenge is migrating from monthly batch processing to continuous, real-time billing with autonomous anomaly detection and remediation. The position suits an experienced engineering leader comfortable managing distributed, multi-team organizations across multiple sites.

Principal level · 10+ years · Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA · Full-time

Advertised as Senior, but the requirements read as Principal.

Must have (1)
Agile

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How this req sits in the market our data

Roughly 660 people in the Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (computer and information systems managers). range 490–860

Applicant volume Heavy — This req sits in a large pool with little in its requirements to thin it, and auto-apply tools fire at everything in the occupation. Applying early and leading with the rare skills below is what gets read.

What the occupation pays Median $219,401 (middle half $175,322–$306,147).

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 (7)

This is a people-management role leading a ~40-person multi-team engineering organization across Arlington VA, Berlin, and Seattle — classified accordingly as a Computer and Information Systems Manager rather than an individual-contributor developer SOC.

Seniority is assessed as Principal: the role owns a ~40-person multi-team org spanning three global sites, drives org-wide technical vision, and has direct impact on hundreds of millions of dollars of Amazon Free Cash Flow — well above the scope of a typical Senior engineering manager.

The posting lists three locations (Arlington VA, Berlin, Seattle); Seattle is used as the primary CBSA since it is listed first among the US sites and is Amazon's HQ. The role is not remote.

The Basic Qualifications name no specific named technologies or tools — only experience categories (engineering, management, consumer software delivery, Agile program management). These are captured as role-level requirements (the overall years minimum, management years, Agile) rather than technology skills.

The Preferred Qualifications section names no specific technologies either; 'large-scale, high-traffic applications' is listed as a preferred skill to capture the design/architecture dimension, but no concrete tool names appear anywhere in the posting.

No compensation figures are stated in the posting.

Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): engineering team management, large-scale distributed systems.

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