Sr. Software Dev Engineer, AWS EKS
Core
Designing and building a sidecarless service mesh data path for Amazon EKS, handling traffic interception, encryption, and forwarding between services.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Development Engineer (Networking/Service Mesh)
Builds
A kernel/eBPF-based service mesh for EKS clusters
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Networking / Service Mesh
Required skills
Distributed systems architecture, eBPF, kernel networking, Layer 4/7 traffic management, mTLS, performance budgeting, system design, mentorship
Preferred skills
Full SDLC experience, code review leadership, source control, testing, operations
Technologies
Kubernetes, eBPF, Istio, VPC CNI, Linux Kernel
Responsibilities
Design the mesh data path for traffic interception and forwarding; Decide placement of Layer 4/mTLS enforcement vs Layer 7 processing; Own data path performance budget; Partner with control plane and kernel engineers; Mentor engineers on data path development
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities