Amazon
Senior Software Dev Engineer , AWS Elastic Container Service
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three stated experience requirements; leadership experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent (preferred).
About the job
Leads the design and technical direction of systems that reduce container startup latency for AWS Fargate at scale.
What you'll do
- Own the architecture and technical roadmap for container startup optimization.
- Drive system design across container runtime, operating system, and networking layers; mentor engineers.
- Promote operational practices, monitoring, and root-cause resolution across the team.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming experience in at least one software programming language.
- 5+ years leading design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent; experience with container-based services, cloud infrastructure on AWS, or Docker, Kubernetes, or ECS.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Linux kernel, containerd/runc, Bottlerocket, container networking, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, AWS
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