{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"62e4f29fee22ddb8629d5a6f","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/62e4f29fee22ddb8629d5a6f","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/62e4f29fee22ddb8629d5a6f","title":"Software Dev Engineer 2, AWS EKS","description":"DESCRIPTION\nAmazon Web Services is looking for Software Development Engineers to join our growing\nAmazon Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) team. Amazon EKS is our managed\nKubernetes service that makes it easy for customers to use Kubernetes without needing to\nbecome experts in provisioning and operating Kubernetes. EKS manages time-consuming\nadministrative tasks like setting up, operating, scaling and updating Kubernetes freeing\ncustomers up to focus on their applications.\n\nYou will be solving challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, alongside with\npeers with remarkable technical expertise. The solutions you build will be high impact and rolled\nout to our large customer base across the world. If you are excited to work in a dynamic\nenvironment, we would love to hear from you!\n\nInclusive Team Culture\nHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of\ninclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190\nchapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning\nexperiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership\nPrinciples, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and\nearn trust.\n\nWork/Life Balance\nOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at\nhome or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.\nWe believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to\nlife-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to\nfind your own balance between your work and personal lives.\nThis position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We\ndon’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that\nour systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause\nso that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.\n\nMentorship & Career Growth\nOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels\nand tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and\nmentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code\nreviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help\neach team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more\ncomplex tasks in the future.\n\nKey job responsibilities\n\nCollaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.\nDesign and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.\nDesign and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.\nWork in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.\n\nA day in the life\nThe challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.\n\nAbout the team\nThis is a unique opportunity within AWS to work on an open-source project — Karpenter, a node autoscaler for Kubernetes. We actively participate in Kubernetes working groups and collaborate across companies. We attend and present at KubeCon (Kubernetes conference), and work closely with EKS customers to solve real-world scaling challenges.\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\n3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience\n2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience\n1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience\n1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience\n1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience\nBachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field\nExperience programming with at least one software programming language\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\n3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience\n\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\n\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.\n\nThe base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.\n\nUSA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually","company":"Amazon Web Services","rawCompany":"amazon web services","city":"Seattle","state":"WA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-08-04T19:26:46.073Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1251.00","title":"Computer Programmers","slug":"computer-programmers"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Software Dev Engineer 2, AWS EKS","description":"DESCRIPTION\nAmazon Web Services is looking for Software Development Engineers to join our growing\nAmazon Elastic Container Services for Kubernetes (EKS) team. Amazon EKS is our managed\nKubernetes service that makes it easy for customers to use Kubernetes without needing to\nbecome experts in provisioning and operating Kubernetes. EKS manages time-consuming\nadministrative tasks like setting up, operating, scaling and updating Kubernetes freeing\ncustomers up to focus on their applications.\n\nYou will be solving challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, alongside with\npeers with remarkable technical expertise. The solutions you build will be high impact and rolled\nout to our large customer base across the world. If you are excited to work in a dynamic\nenvironment, we would love to hear from you!\n\nInclusive Team Culture\nHere at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of\ninclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190\nchapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning\nexperiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) conferences. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership\nPrinciples, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and\nearn trust.\n\nWork/Life Balance\nOur team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isn’t about how many hours you spend at\nhome or at work; it’s about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life.\nWe believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to\nlife-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to\nfind your own balance between your work and personal lives.\nThis position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We\ndon’t like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that\nour systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause\nso that we don’t get paged for the same issue twice.\n\nMentorship & Career Growth\nOur team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels\nand tenures, and we’re building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and\nmentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code\nreviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help\neach team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more\ncomplex tasks in the future.\n\nKey job responsibilities\n\nCollaborate with experienced cross-disciplinary Amazonians to conceive, design, and bring innovative products and services to market.\nDesign and build innovative technologies in a large distributed computing environment and help lead fundamental changes in the industry.\nDesign and code the right solutions starting with broadly defined problems.\nWork in an agile environment to deliver high-quality software.\n\nA day in the life\nThe challenges SDEs solve for at Amazon are big and influence millions of customers, sellers, and products around the world. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about creating new products, features, and services from scratch while managing ambiguity and the pace of a company where development cycles are measured in weeks, not years.\n\nAbout the team\nThis is a unique opportunity within AWS to work on an open-source project — Karpenter, a node autoscaler for Kubernetes. We actively participate in Kubernetes working groups and collaborate across companies. We attend and present at KubeCon (Kubernetes conference), and work closely with EKS customers to solve real-world scaling challenges.\nBASIC QUALIFICATIONS\n3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience\n2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience\n1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience\n1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience\n1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience\nBachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field\nExperience programming with at least one software programming language\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\n3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience\n\nAmazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.\n\nOur inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for our customers. If you have a disability and need a workplace accommodation or adjustment during the application and hiring process, including support for the interview or onboarding process, please visit https://amazon.jobs/content/en/how-we-hire/accommodations for more information. If the country/region you’re applying in isn’t listed, please contact your Recruiting Partner.\n\nThe base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.\n\nUSA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually","datePosted":"2026-08-04T19:26:46.073Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T19:26:46.073Z","hiringOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Amazon Web Services","sameAs":"https://jobsearcher.com"},"jobLocation":{"@type":"Place","address":{"@type":"PostalAddress","addressLocality":"Seattle","addressRegion":"WA","addressCountry":"US"}},"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","name":"JobSearcher","value":"62e4f29fee22ddb8629d5a6f"},"url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/62e4f29fee22ddb8629d5a6f"}}