Senior Software Development Engineer, K8s - EKS

About the role

As a Senior Software Engineer in the Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) team you will help us deliver the mission of making AWS the best place to run containers. At Amazon EKS, we are building a core set of functionality that will allow our customers to create and use Kubernetes at scale. You will be part of an exceptional team moving the needle towards making containers as the next generation compute platform. This is an opportunity engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in distributed systems and cloud computing. You will be solving challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, alongside with 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 environment, we would love to hear from you! About the team The EKS Cluster Lifecycle team owns the provisioning, patching, and continuous delivery of Kubernetes control planes software across the largest managed Kubernetes fleet with single-tenant architecture running mission-critical workloads. We ensure every cluster is created reliably and stays current with upstream Kubernetes releases, internal EKS updates, and security patches without disrupting customer workloads.
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience - 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience - 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience - Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team