Job Description

DESCRIPTION

As a Software Engineer in Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Nodes team, you will help make EKS the most reliable place to run containerized workloads on Kubernetes at massive scale (5000 or more nodes per cluster). We are looking for engineers to help build our strong product roadmap and who have or want to develop deep expertise in Kubernetes data plane i.e. Node life cycle, upgrades, cluster auto scaling, monitoring/repair and enable diverse workloads on EKS like Spot, ARM and Inferentia.

Some reasons to consider joining our team
be part of an exceptional and incredibly collaborative team who has fun while tackling hard problems
large scale (hundreds of thousands of EC2 instances and growing!) infrastructure management problem
contribute to upstream Kubernetes, specifically kubelet, cluster autoscaler, kube-proxy, node problem detector
formulate and implement Kubernetes aware upgrade strategies for up to 10,000 Nodes
continuously detect and repair problems with Nodes in a cluster

Inclusive Team Culture
Here at AWS, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have ten employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We have innovative benefit offerings, and host annual and ongoing learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences. Amazons culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 14 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust.

Work/Life Balance
Our team puts a high value on work-life balance. It isnt about how many hours you spend at home or at work; its about the flow you establish that brings energy to both parts of your life. We believe striking the right balance between your personal and professional life is critical to life-long happiness and fulfillment. We offer flexibility in working hours and encourage you to find your own balance between your work and personal lives.
This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We dont like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend, so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged, we work together to resolve the root cause so that we dont get paged for the same issue twice.

Mentorship & Career Growth
Our team is dedicated to supporting new members. We have a broad mix of experience levels and tenures, and were building an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Our senior members enjoy one-on-one mentoring and thorough, but kind, code reviews. We care about your career growth and strive to assign projects based on what will help each team member develop into a better-rounded engineer and enable them to take on more complex tasks in the future.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS

2+ years of non-internship professional software experience
Programming experience with at least one modern language such as , C++, or including object-oriented design
1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current .

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience with Kubernetes and other CNCF projects

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