Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Kubernetes, EKS Scalability

About you

You're looking for an opportunity to have world-changing impact at one of the most innovative companies on Earth. You're excited about open source and want to help design, deliver, and operate a revolutionary new AWS service, Amazon EKS. You are a strong developer with a background in large scale distributed systems, Linux systems development, and/or networking, and are energized by the idea of helping us make AWS the best place to run containers and Kubernetes.

About us

We're a relatively new team of AWS engineers that are building a core set of services to help our customers to run and use Kubernetes and etcd at scale on AWS. Given the massive scale and customer demand on Amazon EKS, it is is our goal to contribute upstream to strengthen the design, scale, security and stability of the Kubernetes and etcd projects and ultimately Amazon EKS.

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

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 (gender diversity) 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.

This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don't like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we don't get paged for the same issue twice.

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.

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.