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Amazon

Sells products online and rents cloud computing

Structural Engineer - Multiple Teams

Full-Time
$116.8k - $160k/yr+ Sign-on payments + Restricted stock units (RSUs)
Senior
Bachelor's, Master's
Umatilla, OR, USA
In PersonRequires up to 50% domestic travel and occasional international travel with short notice.
Architecture & Civil EngineeringStructural Engineering
Company Historically Provides H1B Sponsorship

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 5 years of industrial or commercial engineering experience in mission-critical facilities, including data centers, power generation, or oil and gas facilities.
  • A bachelor's degree or equivalent in Structural Engineering.
  • Experience reading, interpreting, and creating construction drawings, specifications, and submittal documents.
  • Ability to travel up to 50% domestically with short notice.
  • Experience in seismic design and detailing for structural steel and reinforced concrete structures, including applicable regulations and standards such as the International Building Code and American Society of Civil Engineers standards.
Responsibilities
  • Provide full life-cycle support to AWS data centers from design inception through site improvement and maintenance.
  • Serve as the regional engineering resource for technical advice and apply structural engineering subject matter expertise.
  • Work with multidisciplinary professionals on conceptual design, build, and retrofit projects at existing data centers.
  • Create, review, and release data center structural improvements and designs.
  • Drive refinements to the Basis of Design, product development, sustainability, and template specifications for structural systems.
  • Serve as a technical advisor on projects, including reviewing foundation and structural systems.
  • Create, review, and release structural design requests for proposals.
  • Manage external structural design consultants through project audits, design, and implementation while coordinating with internal engineering, construction, and stakeholder teams.
  • Lead initiatives to improve quality, schedule, and consistency or reduce costs for current and future data center construction and improvement projects.
  • Work on multiple data center build and capital improvement projects simultaneously while maintaining safety and availability constraints.
  • Support international and domestic site walks, field observations, data center audits and inspections, international teams, and schematic and design document packages for future and existing sites.
Desired Qualifications
  • Professional Engineer license.
  • Experience with building codes and regulations for the applicable region.
  • Experience in data center or mission-critical facility design, including basic multidisciplinary knowledge of mission-critical systems, the design process, pre-construction requirements, and construction processes.
  • A master's degree in Structural Engineering.

About the company

Amazon runs the largest online store in the United States and rents cloud computing to businesses and governments through Amazon Web Services. AWS pioneered renting computing power over the internet, and Amazon built its own delivery network to get orders to customers quickly. Shoppers buy from Amazon and from independent sellers on its store, and Prime members pay a subscription for fast free shipping, streaming video and music, and other perks. AWS rents out computing power, storage, databases, and AI tools so companies can run software without owning servers, and Amazon also makes Kindle e-readers and Echo speakers with the Alexa assistant. Jeff Bezos founded Amazon in 1994, and it is based in Seattle, Washington.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

IPO

Headquarters

Seattle, Washington

Founded

1994

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What believers are saying

  • AI drives growth: AWS's AI and custom-chip sales each more than doubled, passing $25 billion a year by June 2026.
  • Stock grants gained value: shares hit a record in August 2026, making Amazon the fifth company to reach $3 trillion.
  • Ads are a third engine beside stores and AWS: they grew 26% to $19.8 billion in the June 2026 quarter.

What critics are saying

  • AWS's lead is shrinking: in the June 2026 quarter, Google Cloud grew 82% and Microsoft's Azure 43%, versus AWS's 37%.
  • Job security has slipped: Amazon cut 30,000 corporate jobs in October 2025 and January 2026 to reduce management layers.
  • Expect five office days a week: Amazon ended its three-day hybrid policy for corporate staff in January 2025.

What makes Amazon unique

  • Most of Amazon's profit comes from cloud: AWS made 21% of sales but 60% of operating profit in mid-2026.
  • Amazon is America's biggest parcel carrier by volume: it handled 6.9 billion packages in 2025, more than the Postal Service.
  • Writing matters more than slides: Amazon meetings open with silent reading of a six-page memo instead of PowerPoint.

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