
Software Development Engineer, AWS - Amazon EKS
Required skills
- AWS
- EKS
- Kubernetes
- Control Plane
- API
- regional services
- lifecycle
- infrastructure
- health detection
- operational signals
Nice to have
- coding standards
- code reviews
- source control management
- Amazon GuardDuty
- agents
Role summary
The Amazon EKS Control Plane team is seeking a Software Development Engineer to manage the global EKS fleet. This role involves owning the customer's cluster lifecycle, from API intent to the Kubernetes control plane, and ensuring availability and resiliency. You will engineer distributed systems at scale, influence strategy, and solve complex technical challenges. The position includes on-call responsibilities and requires 3+ years of professional software development experience and 2+ years in system design, reliability, and scaling. Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and at least one programming language is essential. Preferred qualifications include SDLC experience and a computer science degree.
Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version rollback, which we built to enable customers mitigate operational risk with in place updates; customers can update normally and watch the new version carry production traffic, and rollback within 7 days if it does not hold, with their cluster state, workloads, and volumes untouched. We also made the control plane resilient to Availability Zone issues with no customer action, which turned a single zonal impairment into a non-event. We run all of this for every EKS cluster across all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud, and on customer premises through AWS Outposts.
Innovation takes a village, and this team is the catalyst for it. Other EKS teams launch on our API and lifecycle services. AWS partner services like Amazon GuardDuty build customer-facing security features integrating with services we own. We also own the EKS Model Context Protocol server and the AI capabilities that enable how agents work with EKS.
This is an opportunity to operate and engineer distributed systems at scale, and to own the availability and resiliency of a service customers run their production workloads on. You will provide technical leadership and influence strategies to delight our customers. You will be solving challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, alongside 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 and collaborative environment to deliver results, we would love to hear from you!
This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don't like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don't get paged for the same issue again. 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
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language Preferred Qualifications: - 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
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. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.
CAN, BC, Vancouver - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually
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