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Software Development Engineer, AWS - Amazon EKS

Amazon· Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
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Seattle, WA$143.7k - $194.4kFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Software Development Engineer to work on the EKS control plane and cluster lifecycle components, focusing on state management, health detection, resilience, and cross-team collaboration within the EKS Management Plane.

Responsibilities

  • Build and improve state machines and orchestration workflows that drive cluster create, update, and upgrade operations
  • Develop health-detection systems that surface actionable insights to customers before issues become outages
  • Contribute to resilience capabilities (rollback, failover, self-healing) from design through production
  • Collaborate with experienced engineers across EKS to solve problems that span multiple services and teams

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
  • 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 experience
  • 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

Skills

Required:Software developmentSystem design / architectureObject Oriented Design

Benefits

  • base salary with sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs)
  • 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
Last updated Oct 25, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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