Amazon
Software Development Engineer II, AWS EKS
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
About the job
Designs, builds, and operates EKS node runtime infrastructure, including machine images, accelerator support, monitoring, and security and release automation.
What you'll do
- Build and maintain optimized AMIs, automated build and release pipelines, and node-level Kubernetes runtime capabilities.
- Operate fleet infrastructure, provide on-call support, respond to incidents and customer escalations, and improve reliability and automation.
- Lead technical designs, collaborate across teams, and mentor junior engineers.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience in design or architecture of new and existing systems.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Python, Ruby, Golang, Java, C++, C#, or Rust.
Nice to have
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, or containers; cloud infrastructure technologies; or Linux/RHEL.
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon EKS, Amazon Linux, Kubernetes, containerd, runc, NVIDIA, Python, Golang
AI focus
Enables AI/ML workloads on Kubernetes through GPU and accelerator support, isolated runtimes, and AI agent workload patterns such as pod pause, resume, snapshot, and restore.
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