Software Engineering Manager (Elastic Kubernetes Service), AWS EKS

- 3+ years of engineering team management experience
- 7+ years of working directly within engineering teams experience
- 3+ years of designing or architecting (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 8+ years of leading the definition and development of multi tier web services experience
- 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 in communicating with users, other technical teams, and senior leadership to collect requirements, describe software product features, technical designs, and product strategy
- Experience in recruiting, hiring, mentoring/coaching and managing teams of Software Engineers to improve their skills, and make them more effective, product software engineers

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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $166,400/year in our lowest geographic market up to $287,700/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.


Amazon’s Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) is looking for a Software Engineering Leader to head up our core Control Plane team. We have an ambitious road-map that seeks to redefine how our customers build their applications and run them at scale.

Amazon EKS allow our customers to use Kubernetes at scale without the undifferentiated heavy lifting required to manage Kubernetes. Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of AWS by providing the best possible experience for customers using Kubernetes. We are growing fast and we are expanding our team to help build additional features for our customers. This is a great time to join a growing team and help influence what we can do for customers who are adopting Kubernetes as a cornerstone in their AWS strategy.

As a leader of the EKS Control Plane team you will be responsible for building and owning core services responsible to EKS cluster management. Amazon EKS Control Plane team’s charter is to provide EKS cluster management operations by managing cluster lifecycle workflows that work at Amazon scale.

Your team will build solutions to ensure the safety and stability of cluster management, integrate with other AWS services with an eye towards simple and streamlined interfaces. You will own staffing and managing the engineering team, product development, setting the team culture, best practices, and organizational planning. The successful candidate will be able to deal with ambiguity and will need to think big.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about the potential of cloud computing, and about building simple and elegant software solutions and customer-centric products. This leader has thrived and succeeded in delivering high quality technology products/services in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift quickly. The candidate is a leader who can prioritize well, communicate clearly and compellingly and who understands how to drive a high level of focus and excellence with a strong team. AWS in general, and this business in particular, operates at very large scale and on critical workloads, so a passion and discipline around operational excellence is key. A high level of ownership and accountability is a must.

For more information on service, please visit https://aws.amazon.com/eks/
Our organization principles: https://github.com/aws/containers-roadmap/blob/master/PRINCIPLES.md

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