Engineering Manager, EKS Add-Ons Platform

Emploive; Seattle, Northern (WA, KY); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon EKS add-ons team in Seattle leads the operator that reconciles add-ons on customer clusters, and the release supply chain to push a CVE-scanned version globally. The role oversees ACK/kro capabilities, with ownership of the charter, roadmap, and cross-team collaboration across AWS service teams and open-source partners.

The manager will hire and grow SDEs, drive safe rollouts, and maintain operational excellence with alarms, dashboards, and escalations across regions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting multi-tier web services.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services.
• Knowledge of end-to-end software/hardware/networks development life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Own the team's charter, roadmap, and delivery for add-on lifecycle, release, and managed ACK/kro capabilities.
• Hire, grow, and retain SDEs; set the bar for design and code reviews and on-call quality.
• Increase release velocity for add-on partner teams with safety measures: staged rollouts, bake time, automated validation, fast rollback.
• Own operational excellence for a fleet-wide, multi-region service with meaningful alarms and dashboards.
• Drive security supply chain for add-on images with patching thresholds and cross-team coordination.

Skills

Engineering management

Team leadership

System design

Cross-team collaboration

Partnering with PM/product

Job description

Amazon EKS add-ons team in Seattle leads the operator that reconciles add-ons on customer clusters, and the release supply chain to push a CVE-scanned version globally. The role oversees ACK/kro capabilities, with ownership of the charter, roadmap, and cross-team collaboration across AWS service teams and open-source partners.

The manager will hire and grow SDEs, drive safe rollouts, and maintain operational excellence with alarms, dashboards, and escalations across regions.