Senior Software Development Engineer, K8s - EKS (AWS)

Amazon; Austin (TX); 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 is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer for the Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) in Austin, TX. You will help deliver Kubernetes control planes at scale, building distributed systems for a massive customer base.

The role emphasizes leadership, mentorship, and technical excellence within a fast-moving AWS environment. You will work on provisioning, patching, and continuous delivery of Kubernetes software across large fleets, contributing to reliability and security while

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.

Responsibilities

• Deliver mission of making AWS the best place to run containers.
• Engineer systems at scale in distributed cloud environments.

Skills

Software development

Technical leadership

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Senior Software Development Engineer, K8s - EKS

Job ID: 10475812 | Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

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

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