Software Development Manager, K8s - EKS, AWS - Amazon EKS

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 275,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Manager for AWS EKS to lead teams responsible for Kubernetes infrastructure that powers EKS at scale. You will own the roadmap, coordinate with partner teams, and drive reliability across multi-cluster environments.

The role demands strong engineering leadership, deep experience with distributed systems, and a passion for customer-visible reliability, performance, and scalable architecture. Equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems.
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi-tier web services.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software lifecycle, including coding standards, reviews, source control, build, testing, and live-site operations.

Responsibilities

• Define product and technical direction and architecture.
• Coordinate with adjacent teams to deliver features on schedule.
• Own operational posture end to end: on-call, incident response, availability metrics.
• Build and grow a high-performing team with a culture of ownership.

Skills

Team management

Distributed systems

Systems architecture

Incident response

Roadmap planning

Kubernetes knowledge

Tools

Kubernetes

Container orchestration

Job description

Software Development Manager, K8s - EKS, AWS - Amazon EKS

The mission of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is to simplify the deployment, management, and scaling of Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on-premises. We are expanding the organization to keep pace with EKS’s rapid adoption, and this role leads teams responsible for the infrastructure that keeps EKS running reliably for customers at scale.

What You’ll Own

You will lead a team that owns three core areas:

• Foundational services that power EKS APIs – mature, critical systems you’ll evolve as EKS launches new capabilities.
• Availability and resiliency of the management plane itself – health monitoring, automated recovery, safe deployments, and fault isolation that keep customers unaffected when things go wrong.
• Multi‑cluster management at scale – making it straightforward for customers to orchestrate upgrades and manage lifecycle operations across their entire fleet.

What You’ll Solve

Key challenges include keeping the management plane available at industry‑leading levels while shipping features weekly; making fleet‑wide upgrades across thousands of clusters safe and simple; and evolving billing and metering systems to support new pricing models without breaking existing customers. You will define the roadmap, make trade‑offs, and deliver.

What You’ll Do

You will define product and technical direction, partner with adjacent teams to coordinate architecture and feature delivery, and own operational posture end to end: on‑call, incident response, and availability metrics. You will build and grow a high‑performing team with a culture of ownership and operational rigor.

About You

• You’ve led teams that own high‑availability distributed systems.
• You are technically strong and comfortable in production incidents, system design, and architecture trade‑offs.
• You care about how customers experience reliability, not just uptime numbers but what happens when things break.
• You can take ambiguous problem spaces and turn them into clear roadmaps.
• You build teams people want to join. Experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration is a plus, not a requirement.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams
• 3+ years of designing or architecting new and existing systems (design patterns, reliability, and scaling)
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi‑tier web services
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/network 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
• Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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

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 optional 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.