Description

EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) is hiring talented SDEs!

The unique benefit of joining this team is that engineers will get to learn both Amazonian way of building highly scalable services as well as how other companies in the industry solve technical challenges with open-sourced solutions.

etcd is a world-famous, open-sourced, distributed key-value store. It is the backend data store for Kubernetes. EKS etcd team is part of EKS, a managed service for running Kubernetes in AWS, which is now the de facto platform for hosting state-of-the-art LLM models in AWS and our customers include top Generative AI model providers, i.e. Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock and Alexa.

The missions of EKS etcd team are as follows:

1. Manage and operate hundreds of thousands of etcd clusters globally. This is an opportunity to operate and engineer systems on a massive scale, and to gain top-notch experience in cloud computing.

2. Drive the open source community to fit the needs of AWS. We’ll work together with engineers from other top tech companies like Google, VMware and ByteDance, to push beyond the current performance limit to the next level.

Our team owns components for control plane workflow, a node agent written in Golang to monitor and operate etcd, as well as the open-sourced etcd server itself. You will always find an interesting domain to work on.

We will RELY ON YOU to help define our strategy and lay the foundations for all of our future roadmap. We value engineers who take initiative and demonstrate ownership over the systems they work on.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience

• 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience

• 5+ years of leading design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience

• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Our 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.

Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $151,300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $261,500/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered, equity, sign-on payments, and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package, in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits. For more information, please visit https://www.aboutamazon.com/workplace/employee-benefits. This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.