Amazon
Software Development Engineer , AWS Kubernetes (K8s), AWS Kubernetes
$165K–$224K
Santa Clara, CA · Full-time · Posted Sep 16, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience; 2+ years of non-internship system design or architecture experience. Preferred: 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and operate scalable EKS networking software and distributed services, including open-source networking projects and next-generation eBPF observability and telemetry.
What you'll do
- Contribute to open-source projects including AWS VPC CNI, eBPF-based network policy, and AWS load balancer controller.
- Develop eBPF-based network observability and telemetry.
- Help grow and mentor junior engineers.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
165,200.00 - 223,600.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS VPC CNI, eBPF, AWS load balancer controller
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