Kubernetes Add-ons & Release Engineering Manager

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon in Seattle is seeking a Manager III, Software Development to lead the EKS add-ons and capabilities team. You will own the operator that reconciles add-ons, the release supply chain, and the Managed AWS Controllers for Kubernetes stack, ensuring production reliability across regions.

You will collaborate with product managers and other EKS teams, hire and develop engineers, and drive safety in rollout while maintaining a code-first, public-repo culture.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the team's charter, roadmap, and delivery for add-on lifecycle, add-on release, and managed ACK/kro capabilities, including the trade-off calls between new capability and paying down operational load
• Hire, grow, and retain SDEs across levels; set the bar for design review, code review, and on-call quality
• Raise release velocity for add-on partner teams while tightening the safety envelope: staged rollouts, bake time, automated validation, fast rollback
• Own operational excellence for a fleet-wide, multi-region, multi-partition service: alarms that mean something, dashboards leadership can read, COEs that produce fixes rather than paragraphs
• Drive the security supply chain for add-on images: scan coverage, time-to- patch, and holding the line with provider teams on CRITICAL/HIGH findings
• Partner with PM and adjacent EKS teams (control plane, connectivity, the internal cluster platform the capability controllers run on) on cross-team designs and launches
• Represent the team in upstream ACK/kro and EKS add-on community work, and in customer and service-team escalations

Skills

Team management

Engineering leadership

Architecting systems

Cross-functional collaboration

Recruiting and mentoring

Job description

Amazon in Seattle is seeking a Manager III, Software Development to lead the EKS add-ons and capabilities team. You will own the operator that reconciles add-ons, the release supply chain, and the Managed AWS Controllers for Kubernetes stack, ensuring production reliability across regions.

You will collaborate with product managers and other EKS teams, hire and develop engineers, and drive safety in rollout while maintaining a code-first, public-repo culture.