Senior Software Development Engineer, K8s - EKS

Amazon; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon AWS EKS is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to help deliver Kubernetes at scale. You will join the Elastic Kubernetes Service team responsible for provisioning, patching, and delivering control planes across a large fleet, ensuring reliability and security while moving containers toward the next generation compute platform.

You will solve complex distributed systems challenges, mentor peers, and contribute to design decisions that impact customers worldwide.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems experience.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Skills

Software development

Programming experience

Design architecture

Mentor / tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Description

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) team you will help us deliver the mission of making AWS the best place to run containers. At Amazon EKS, we are building a core set of functionality that will allow our customers to create and use Kubernetes at scale. You will be part of an exceptional team moving the needle towards making containers as the next generation compute platform. This is an opportunity engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top‑notch experience in distributed systems and cloud computing.

You will be solving challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, alongside with peers having remarkable technical expertise. The solutions you build will be high impact and rolled out to our large customer base across the world. If you are excited to work in a dynamic environment, we would love to hear from you!

About the team

The EKS Cluster Lifecycle team owns the provisioning, patching, and continuous delivery of Kubernetes control planes software across the largest managed Kubernetes fleet with single‑tenant architecture running mission‑critical workloads. We ensure every cluster is created reliably and stays current with upstream Kubernetes releases, internal EKS updates, and security patches without disrupting customer workloads.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non‑internship professional software development experience
• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of professional software engineering & best practices for full software development life cycle, including coding standards, software architectures, code reviews, source control management, continuous deployments, testing, and operational excellence
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign‑on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, TX, Austin - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually