Principal WW Specialist SA, EC2 Mac, Core EC2

Application deadline: Dec 23 2025

The team is looking for an experienced Solutions Architect who will be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) responsible for our support of EC2 Mac instances. As an EC2 Mac Solution Architect (SA) you will work with customers globally partner closely with the engineering business development and technical field teams to drive the adoption of AWS EC2 Mac instances. The EC2 Mac SA will develop white papers blogs reference architectures and presentations to enable customers and partners to understand and leverage the value of EC2 Mac instances. The EC2 Mac SA will also help drive enablement initiatives to continually develop the best technical field teams in the industry.

AWS Specialist Solutions Architects (SSAs) are technologists with deep domain-specific expertise able to address advanced concepts and feature designs. As part of the AWS sales organization SSAs work with customers who have complex challenges that require expert-level knowledge to solve. SSAs craft scalable flexible and resilient technical architectures that address those challenges. This might involve guiding customers as they refactor an application or designing entirely new cloud-based systems. Do you enjoy solving novel and unique technical challenges for customers Become an AWS Specialist SA!



Key job responsibilities
- Represent the voice of the customer; bring customer feedback to product teams to influence feature development and future product roadmap.
- Provide advanced technical knowledge to your domain aligned GTM teams to unblock our customers largest and most critical business challenges.
- Act as a thought leader sharing best practices through forums such as AWS blogs whitepapers reference architectures and public-speaking events such as AWS Summit AWS re: Invent etc.
- Partner with Business Development teams to define the technical components of best in class GTM concepts solutions and initiatives.
- Develop and support an AWS internal community of technical subject matter experts worldwide. Create field enablement materials for the broader SA population to help them understand how to integrate Amazon Web Services solutions into customer architectures.



About the team

This position is part of the AWS Specialist and Partner Organization (ASP). Specialists own the end-to-end go-to-market strategy for their respective technology domains providing the business and technical expertise to help our customers succeed. Partner teams own the strategy recruiting development and growth of our key technology and consulting partners. Together they provide our customers with the expertise and scale needed to build innovative solutions for their most complex challenges.

The AWS EC2 team was created to make sure customers can deploy the best most scalable and most secure architectures possible. Youll play an important role as an advocate with our service teams to make sure we are building the right products.

Diverse Experiences
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- 10 years of design/implementation/operations/consulting with distributed applications experience
- 6 years of Apple platform development experience or Masters degree in computer science or equivalent
- Travel to client locations as needed. Estimated 30% travel requirement.

- History of successful technical consulting and/or architecture engagements with large-scale customers or enterprises
- Experience migrating or transforming legacy customer solutions to the cloud
- Familiarity with common enterprise services and working knowledge of software development tools and methodologies
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a high degree of comfort speaking with executives IT Management and developers.
- Experience working within software development or Internet-related industries
- AWS Solution Architecture certification or relevant cloud expertise
- Computer Science /relevant degree and/or experience highly desired

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The Colorado base pay for this position ranges from $182800/year up to $247300/year. The National base pay for this position ranges from $164500/year in our lowest geographic market up to $284300/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity sign-on payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.