# Senior Software Development Engineer, AWS Kubernetes (K8s)

Our software developers build the next generation technologies that change how millions of AWS customers connect, and interact with AWS services ecosystem. We use ideas from every facet of computer science including distributed computing, large-scale design, service oriented architecture, networking, big data processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. We are looking for highly-motivated and passionate engineers to build next generation of network management for one of the largest networks in the world. We are seeking an experienced software engineer with background in building and operating an infrastructure platform responsible for training, fine-tuning and inference of AI models. Key job responsibilities You will be working with customers spanning from industry-leading AI labs to Fortune 500 enterprise companies that are leveraging EKS to train and deploy models at scale. You will work with Amazon's AI teams to operationalize purpose-built models to improve the EKS experience for new and existing users. As a member of the EKS Networking team, you will get to actively contribute to open source projects such as AWS VPC CNI, eBPF based network policy, AWS load balanc

- **Id**: 3700486
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-senior-software-development-engineer-aws-kubernetes-k8s>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Santa Clara, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-03T19:16:51Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-03
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T14:37:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 4
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 7405
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Logistics & Warehouse Robotics, Video Production, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4548
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.885
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 193300
- **Max**: 261500
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 261500

## Technologies

- **Amazon EKS** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Trainium** — Optional: no
- **C++** — Optional: no
- **eBPF** — Optional: no
- **Fine-tuning** — Optional: no
- **Go** — Optional: no
- **Java** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Kubeflow** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Machine Learning** — Optional: no
- **NCCL** — Optional: no
- **Perl** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 4

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 8
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-03T19:16:51Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 261500
- **Is top pay**: yes

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