Software Development Engineer II, AWS EKS

Amazon Web Services is looking for Software Development Engineers to join our growing Amazon Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) team. Amazon EKS is our managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy for customers to use Kubernetes without needing to become experts in provisioning and operating Kubernetes. EKS manages time-consuming administrative tasks like setting up, operating, scaling and updating Kubernetes freeing customers up to focus on their applications.

We’re on the lookout for the curious Software Development Engineer II (SDE-2), those who think big and want to define the world of tomorrow. At Amazon, you will grow into the high impact, visionary person you know you’re ready to be. Every day will be filled with exciting new challenges, developing new skills, and achieving personal growth. How often can you say that your work changes the world? At Amazon, you’ll say it often. Join us and define tomorrow.

Do you want to solve business challenges through innovative technology? Do you enjoy working on cutting-edge, scalable services technology in a team environment? Do you like working on industry-defining projects that move the needle?

At Amazon, we hire the best minds in technology to innovate and build on behalf of our customers. The focus we have on our customers is why we are one of the world’s most beloved brands – customer obsession is part of our company DNA. Our Software Development Engineers (SDEs) use cutting-edge technology to solve complex problems and get to see the impact of their work first-hand.

• Key job responsibilities
• •Collaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.
• •Design and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.
• •Create solutions to run predictions on distributed systems with exposure to innovative technologies at incredible scale and speed.
• •Build distributed storage, index, and query systems that are scalable, fault-tolerant, low cost, and easy to manage/use.
• •Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• •Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

• A day in the life
• The challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.

• About the team
• Amazon EKS Auto Mode fully automates Kubernetes cluster management for compute, storage, and networking on AWS with a single click.

Passionate about Kubernetes or containers? Join our Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) team in Seattle as a Software Development Engineer II working on EKS Auto mode infrastructure and internal services.

• Key job responsibilities
• Design & Build: Architect and implement scalable, highly available distributed systems that provision, manage, and orchestrate compute for EKS (Managed Node Groups, Hybrid Nodes, Fargate Profiles).

Operate at Scale: Own the operational health of services handling millions of customer workloads; participate in on-call rotations and drive operational improvements.

Technical Leadership: Lead the design and implementation of complex features end-to-end, from requirements through deployment and production validation.

Kubernetes Expertise: Work deeply with Kubernetes internals, controllers, and APIs to build seamless compute experiences across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments.

Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with other EKS teams, AWS service teams, and open-source communities to deliver integrated, customer-centric solutions.

Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers, conduct thorough code reviews, and contribute to a culture of engineering excellence.

Operational Excellence: Drive improvements in CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, alarming, and incident response processes.

Innovation: Identify opportunities to simplify customer experiences, reduce operational burden, and push the boundaries of what's possible with managed compute.

• About the team
• The EKS Compute Platform team builds and operates the compute infrastructure that powers Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). We own EKS Managed Node Groups, EKS Hybrid Nodes, and EKS Fargate Profiles - the systems responsible for provisioning, scaling, and managing the compute that runs millions of customer workloads across AWS.

Our team tackles challenges at the intersection of distributed systems, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure. We're building the next generation of compute experiences that let customers seamlessly run containers on AWS, on-premises, and at the edge through a unified EKS control plane.

• Inclusive Team Culture
• Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of
• inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190
• chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning
• experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

• Work/Life Balance
• Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at
• home or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.
• We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to
• life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to
• find your own balance between your work and personal lives.

• Mentorship & Career Growth
• Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels
• and tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and
• mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code
• reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help
• each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more
• complex tasks in the future.

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
• - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• - Experience programming with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, Rust

Preferred qualifications

• - Experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem, or experience that includes strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication abilities and experience managing full application stacks from the OS up through custom applications
• - Knowledge of and experience with cloud infrastructure technologies
• - Experience in Linux OS and network troubleshooting, or experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem and experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, PowerShell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP)
• - Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (CloudFormation, Terraform, CDK)
• - Track record of delivering complex, ambiguous projects with minimal guidance
• - Experience with hybrid or edge computing architectures
• - Contributions to open-source projects, especially in the Kubernetes/CNCF ecosystem
• - Strong operational mindset - experience with monitoring, observability, and incident management at scale

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