CareerPlan

Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Kubernetes (K8s)

Santa Clara, California, United StatesFull-time$193k–$262k2026-11-03 → 2026-11-09

Core

Building and operating an infrastructure platform for training, fine-tuning, and inference of AI models on AWS EKS, focusing on next-generation network management, observability, and telemetry.

Role type

Senior IC software development engineer (Kubernetes/AI infrastructure)

Builds

High-scale, reliable networking infrastructure and ML capabilities for external customers and internal use

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, machine learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Kubernetes, eBPF, distributed systems design, system architecture, Linux, Java/Golang/C/C++/Python, network protocols, GPU/Trainium infrastructure, NCCL, PyTorch/JAX/Kubeflow/Kueue

Preferred skills

Linux kernel development, complex software system delivery, mentoring, network hardware configuration, performance optimization

Technologies

AWS EKS, AWS VPC CNI, eBPF, AWS load balancer controller, PyTorch, JAX, Kubeflow, Kueue, GPUs, Trainium, NCCL

Responsibilities

Contribute to open source projects (AWS VPC CNI, eBPF network policy, load balancer controller), operationalize purpose-built models to improve EKS experience, set technical strategy for high-scale infrastructure, work with AI teams and customers to deploy models at scale

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities