Software Dev Engineer 2, 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.

You will be solving challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, alongside with

peers with remarkable technical expertise. The solutions you build will be high impact and rolled

out to our large customer base across the world. If you are excited to work in a dynamic

environment, we would love to hear from you!

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) 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

• 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.

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

This is a unique opportunity within AWS to work on an open-source project - Karpenter, a node autoscaler for Kubernetes. We actively participate in Kubernetes working groups and collaborate across companies. We attend and present at KubeCon (Kubernetes conference), and work closely with EKS customers to solve real-world scaling challenges.