Senior Container Start-up Architect - Scale & Performance

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle seeks a senior engineering leader to own the architecture for container start-up optimization at scale and drive cross-layer system design. You will mentor senior engineers, collaborate with ECS leadership, and shape the future of Fargate performance.

You will champion operational practices, telemetry, runbooks, and root-cause analysis while delivering a step-function improvement in container readiness and deployment latency.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• 5+ years programming in at least one language.
• 5+ years leading design/architecture of systems.
• Experience as a mentor or tech lead.

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and technical roadmap for container start-up optimization at scale.
• Drive system design across the container runtime, OS, and networking layers.
• Mentor and grow a team of engineers building foundational infrastructure.
• Work with ECS leadership to shape Fargate performance.
• Ensure strong operational practices, monitoring, runbooks, and retrospective processes.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

System design/Architecture

Mentorship/Tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

ECS

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle seeks a senior engineering leader to own the architecture for container start-up optimization at scale and drive cross-layer system design. You will mentor senior engineers, collaborate with ECS leadership, and shape the future of Fargate performance.

You will champion operational practices, telemetry, runbooks, and root-cause analysis while delivering a step-function improvement in container readiness and deployment latency.