Some things you'll do here
• Collaborate with the community to integrate AWS services with Kubernetes and etcd
• Maintain upstream projects related to Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, and Etcd
• Work with some of the largest etcd users, such as Kubernetes project, to drive etcd to the next level of scale
• Recommend architectural improvements to Kubernetes and Etcd
• Expand upstream test coverage for Kubernetes on AWS and EKS
• Work on large scale problems both on the control plane and data plane
• Incubate revolutionary ideas that benefit Kubernetes and Amazon EKS
• Troubleshoot and fixing bugs reported by customers
• Mentor junior engineers on design and coding best practices
• Represent AWS technical chops in conferences
Key job responsibilities
Invent and Simplify ambiguous K8s scaling challenges into deliverable tasks and mentor other engineers. Engage with the upstream K8s community, especially the various special interest groups (SIGS) for alignment and contributions. Foster transparency in testing, benchmarking and publishing. Work with key stakeholders to define priorities and roadmap. Lead and set operational best practices.
A day in the life
Engage the community and involved stakeholders in the various OSS projects owned by the Scalability team. Review critical CRs and mentor others on the team. Contextualize and simplify complex K8s scaling challenges for stakeholders and engage multiple AWS teams.
About the team
The EKS-Scalability team has a focus on performance and optimization of the Kubernetes control plane. We aim to unlock ever larger single / multi cluster workloads. We build tools and test frameworks in OSS to benchmark K8s performance and identify bottlenecks. Our features tend to be solutions like KIT (Kubernetes Iteration Toolkit) and Karpenter (an open source node autoscaler) that have been designed and built from the ground up in collboration with some of our largest customers.
We actively contribute and engage the upstream Kubernetes community, especially with SIG Scalability and SIG Autoscaling.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 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
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ 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
- Experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem, or experience in managing and troublshooting network and experience in Kafka
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 option for 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.
USA, WA, Seattle - 168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually