SDE for EKS — Build Resilient Kubernetes Clusters

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer to work on cluster lifecycle, health, and resilience. You will drive state machines for create/update/upgrade, implement health-detection systems, and contribute to rollback and failover capabilities at scale.

The role involves collaborating with senior engineers across EKS, owning distributed systems, and handling on-call responsibilities. Seattle-based, with customers relying on fault-tolerant operations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience for large-scale systems.
• 1+ years of experience with distributed or multi-threaded software applications, tools, systems, and services.
• 1+ years of object-oriented design experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve state machines and orchestration workflows that drive cluster create, update, and upgrade operations.
• Develop health-detection systems that surface actionable insights to customers before issues become outages.
• Contribute to resilience capabilities (rollback, failover, self-healing) from design through production.
• Collaborate with experienced engineers across EKS to solve problems that span multiple services and teams.

Skills

Programming languages

Distributed systems

On-call experience

OO Design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Math

Job description

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is seeking a Software Development Engineer to work on cluster lifecycle, health, and resilience. You will drive state machines for create/update/upgrade, implement health-detection systems, and contribute to rollback and failover capabilities at scale.

The role involves collaborating with senior engineers across EKS, owning distributed systems, and handling on-call responsibilities. Seattle-based, with customers relying on fault-tolerant operations.