Software Dev Engineer 2, AWS EKS

Amazon Web Services is looking for Software Development Engineers to join the growing Amazon Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) team. Amazon EKS is a managed Kubernetes service that simplifies using Kubernetes without requiring expertise in provisioning and operating Kubernetes. EKS handles administrative tasks like setup, operation, scaling, and updates, allowing customers to focus on their applications.

About the role

You will solve challenging technical problems, often unprecedented, alongside peers with remarkable technical expertise. The solutions you build will have high impact and be rolled out to a large global customer base.

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.
• Design and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.
• Work in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.

About the team

This is a unique opportunity within AWS to work on Karpenter, an open-source node autoscaler for Kubernetes. The team actively participates in Kubernetes working groups, collaborates across companies, attends and presents at KubeCon, and works closely with EKS customers to solve real-world scaling challenges.

Work/Life Balance

The team values work-life balance, focusing on the flow that energizes both personal and professional life. Flexible working hours are offered to help establish this balance. This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. The team works to ensure systems are fault tolerant to minimize off-hours pages and collaborates to resolve root causes.

Mentorship & Career Growth

The team supports new members with a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, fostering an environment of knowledge sharing and mentorship. Senior members provide one-on-one mentoring and thorough code reviews. Career growth is prioritized, with projects assigned to help team members develop into well-rounded engineers and take on more complex tasks.

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.
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
• 1+ years of Object-Oriented Design experience.
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $143,700 - $194,400 USD annually. The total compensation package includes sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and location.

Benefits

• Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription).
• Basic Life & AD&D insurance with options for supplemental life plans.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and Mental Health Support.
• Medical Advice Line.
• Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage.
• 401(k) matching.
• Paid time off and parental leave.