Amazon

Software Development Engineer II, AWS EKS, AWS EKS

Amazon$143K — $194K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of professional software development experience
  • 2+ years of design or architecture experience in systems
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field
  • Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, Java, C++)

Responsibilities

  • Drive fleet-wide data consistency and multi-region failover
  • Collaborate on real-time ingestion handling millions of events per second
  • Design high-availability services for Kubernetes operations
  • Manage operational automation at massive scale
  • Enable automatic traffic shifting during Availability Zone failures

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance (medical, dental, vision)
  • 401(k) matching program
  • Flexible Paid Time Off policies
  • Support for adoption and surrogacy reimbursement
  • Employee Assistance Program for mental health support
Full Job Description
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is a fully managed service that simplifies running Kubernetes on AWS. We are looking for a Software Development Engineer (SDEII) to join the management plane and insights team responsible for EKS availability and resiliency, AWS service integrations, and cluster insights across the entire fleet.

We own the services that generate cluster insights at massive scale, handling millions of events per second across one of the world's largest managed Kubernetes fleets. We also own EKS zonal shift including Kubernetes control plane integration with AWS Application Recovery Controller (ARC). When an Availability Zone goes unhealthy, our services shift traffic to healthy zones automatically with no customer action required.

If building foundational infrastructure that keeps millions of clusters running interests you, we'd like to talk.

Key job responsibilities

You'll work on fleet-wide data consistency, multi-region failover, real-time ingestion at millions of events per second, and high-availability service design - problems that sit at the intersection of distributed systems, Kubernetes, and operational automation at massive scale.

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 in 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

- Experience with AWS or cloud technologies

- Experience with programming/scripting (Batch, VB, PowerShell, Java, C#, Chef, Perl, Ruby and/or PHP), or experience in Linux OS and network troubleshooting and experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem

- Experience with project delivery

- Experience in enterprise architecture including virtualization technologies & distributed architecture

- Experience developing operational metrics

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 - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

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Amazon Careers

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