Amazon
Sr. Software Dev Engineer, AWS EKS
$168K–$227K
Seattle, WA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years for each of the three stated experience areas; no alternatives stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build the data path for a sidecarless service mesh on Amazon EKS, handling traffic interception, encryption, forwarding, and performance.
What you'll do
- Design traffic interception, encryption, and forwarding between services without per-pod sidecars.
- Determine where Layer 4, mTLS, and Layer 7 processing occur, and manage handoffs between them while meeting performance targets.
- Collaborate with control plane, kernel/eBPF, and protocols engineers; review designs and code, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years programming with 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.
Pay
168,100.00 - 227,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon EKS, Kubernetes, VPC CNI, eBPF, Istio, Layer 4, mTLS, Layer 7
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