Software Development Engineer II, AWS EKS, AWS EKS

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer (SDE II) to join the EKS management plane and insights team, focusing on availability, resiliency, and fleet-wide cluster insights. You will tackle multi-region failover, real-time ingestion, and scale to millions of events per second.

Requirements include 3+ years of professional software development and strong design experience, plus proficiency in modern languages and Kubernetes/container ecosystems.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming in at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust.

Responsibilities

• Work on fleet-wide data consistency and real-time ingestion at millions of events per second.
• Design for high-availability and multi-region failover in Kubernetes ecosystems.
• Collaborate across teams to improve EKS availability, resiliency, and integrations with AWS services.

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming languages

Kubernetes / containers

AWS / cloud technologies

Communication / collaboration

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field

Job description

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a fully managed service that simplifies running Kubernetes on AWS. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer (SDEII) to join the management plane and insights team responsible for EKS availability and resiliency, AWS service integrations, and cluster insights across the entire fleet.

We own the services that generate cluster insights at massive scale, handling millions of events per second across one of the world's largest managed Kubernetes fleets. We also own EKS zonal shift including Kubernetes control plane integration with AWS Application Recovery Controller (ARC). When an Availability Zone goes unhealthy, our services shift traffic to healthy zones automatically with no customer action required.

If building foundational infrastructure that keeps millions of clusters running interests you, we'd like to talk.

Key job responsibilities

You’ll work on fleet-wide data consistency, multi-region failover, real-time ingestion at millions of events per second, and high-availability service design — problems that sit at the intersection of distributed systems, Kubernetes, and operational automation at massive scale.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming in at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities and experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications
• Experience with AWS or cloud technologies
• Experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, PowerShell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP), or experience in Linux OS and network troubleshooting and experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem
• Experience with project delivery
• Experience in enterprise architecture including virtualization technologies & distributed architecture
• Experience developing operational metrics

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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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.

• 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
• parental leave

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually