Software Development Manager, K8s - EKS, AWS - Amazon EKS

Overview

Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) simplifies deployment, management, and scaling of Kubernetes applications in the cloud or on‑premises. We are expanding the organization to keep pace with EKS’s rapid adoption, and this role leads one of the teams responsible for the infrastructure that keeps EKS running reliably for customers at scale.

• Foundational services powering EKS APIs – mature, critical systems you evolve as new capabilities launch.
• Availability and resiliency of the management plane – health monitoring, automated recovery, safe deployments, fault isolation.
• Multi‑cluster management at scale – orchestrate upgrades and manage lifecycle operations across customers’ fleet.

• Keeping a management plane available at industry‑leading levels while shipping features weekly.
• Making fleet‑wide upgrades across thousands of clusters safe and simple.
• Evolving billing and metering systems to support new pricing models without breaking existing customers.

• Define product and technical direction, partner with adjacent teams to coordinate architecture and feature delivery.
• Own operational posture end‑to‑end: on‑call, incident response, availability metrics.
• Build and grow a high‑performing team with a culture of ownership and operational rigor.

You have led teams that own high‑availability distributed systems. You are technically strong and comfortable with production incidents, system design, and architecture trade‑offs. You care about how customers experience reliability. You can take ambiguous problem spaces and turn them into clear roadmaps, and you build teams people want to join. Experience with Kubernetes or container orchestration is a plus, not a requirement.

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years of designing or architecting systems of new or existing systems (design patterns, reliability, scaling).
• 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi‑tier web services.
• Knowledge of engineering practices and patterns for the full software/hardware/networks development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, certification, and livesite operations.
• Experience partnering with product or program management teams.

• Experience communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership.
• Experience recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers.

Amazon is an equal‑opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription), basic life & AD&D insurance, supplemental life plans, EAP, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption & surrogacy reimbursement coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.

USA, WA, Seattle – $ – $ USD annually.

Company:
Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

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