Software Engineer, EKS Scale & Autoscaling

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC seeks a Software Development Engineer to join the EKS KCP Scalability team, tackling hard distributed systems problems. You will design, build, and operate end-to-end systems that determine EKS reliability for startups to AI/ML workloads, across the Kubernetes API server, autoscaling, and SLA pipelines.

You will own end-to-end components like the Vertical Auto-Scaling Service, SLA measures, and Ultraclusters, collaborating with the upstream Kubernetes community and

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Responsibilities

• Build and operate the Vertical Auto-Scaling Service (VAS) and its next-generation successor (VAS 2.0).
• Work on the SLA measurement pipeline (MinutelySLA → DailySLA → MonthlySLA).
• Contribute to the control plane architecture for EKS Ultraclusters.
• Maintain and extend version release qualification scale tests for Kubernetes.
• Engage with the upstream Kubernetes community and drive KEPs around performance, scale, and resiliency.
• Possibly work on workload identity systems, Cluster Access Management, or large-scale event response.

Skills

Software development

System design

OO design

C++/Java

Education

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

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC seeks a Software Development Engineer to join the EKS KCP Scalability team, tackling hard distributed systems problems. You will design, build, and operate end-to-end systems that determine EKS reliability for startups to AI/ML workloads, across the Kubernetes API server, autoscaling, and SLA pipelines.

You will own end-to-end components like the Vertical Auto-Scaling Service, SLA measures, and Ultraclusters, collaborating with the upstream Kubernetes community and