Software Development Engineer, AWS EKS
Core
Design, build, and operate the control plane for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), managing the global fleet across commercial regions, GovCloud, and customer premises.
Role type
Senior Software Development Engineer (Control Plane)
Builds
EKS control plane services, including version rollback, Availability Zone resilience, and the EKS Model Context Protocol server.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / Kubernetes / Distributed Systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features | infrastructure
Required skills
System design and architecture, Distributed systems engineering, Kubernetes internals, Cloud infrastructure, API design, Reliability engineering, Scaling strategies, Source control management, Build processes, Testing frameworks, On-call incident response
Preferred skills
Full software development lifecycle experience, Coding standards, Technical leadership, Strategic planning
Technologies
AWS, Kubernetes, AI APIs, Cloud DevOps, Security
Responsibilities
Own the availability and resiliency of the EKS control plane service, manage the path from customer intent to a running cluster, maintain health detection and upgrade impact insights, provide technical leadership on strategies to improve customer experience, solve complex unsolved technical problems, participate in on-call support for root cause resolution.