Amazon
Software Dev Engineer, AWS Elastic Container Service
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Sep 4, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture; 1+ years as a software development engineer or related occupation; 1+ years developing large-scale software applications, tools, systems, and services and 1+ years of Object Oriented Design. Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field. Preferred: Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Optimizes container startup and runtime systems to reduce the time containerized workloads take to become ready on AWS Fargate.
What you'll do
- Build and optimize container startup and runtime systems.
- Design and implement solutions across container networking and instance preparation.
- Improve workload launch performance on a large-scale container orchestration platform.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience with new and existing systems.
- Experience developing large-scale software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl, and experience with Object Oriented Design.
- Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field; experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Linux kernel, containerd/runc, Bottlerocket, C#, C++, Java, Perl
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