Software Development Manager, EKS Add-ons & Kubernetes

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

RSUs

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Manager for Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). You will own the add-on lifecycle, release pipeline, and ACK/kro capabilities, while guiding design reviews, mentoring engineers, and improving production reliability across regions.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration with PMs and adjacent EKS teams, strong emphasis on security, rollout safety, and customer-focused execution in a fast-paced cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the team's charter, roadmap, and delivery for add-on lifecycle, add-on release, and managed ACK/kro capabilities, including the trade-off calls between new capability and paying down operational load
• Hire, grow, and retain SDEs across levels; set the bar for design review, code review, and on-call quality
• Raise release velocity for add-on partner teams while tightening the safety envelope: staged rollouts, bake time, automated validation, fast rollback
• Own operational excellence for a fleet-wide, multi-region, multi-partition service: alarms that mean something, dashboards leadership can read, COEs that produce fixes rather than paragraphs
• Drive the security supply chain for add-on images: scan coverage, time-to-patch, and holding the line with provider teams on CRITICAL/HIGH findings
• Partner with PM and adjacent EKS teams on cross-team designs and launches
• Represent the team in upstream ACK/kro and EKS add-on community work, and in customer and service-team escalations

Skills

Engineering management

Software architecture

Web services design

Cross-team collaboration

PM partnership

Recruiting & mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle is seeking a Software Development Manager for Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). You will own the add-on lifecycle, release pipeline, and ACK/kro capabilities, while guiding design reviews, mentoring engineers, and improving production reliability across regions.

The role emphasizes cross-team collaboration with PMs and adjacent EKS teams, strong emphasis on security, rollout safety, and customer-focused execution in a fast-paced cloud environment.