Software Development Engineer, AWS - Amazon EKS

Amazon is hiring a Software Development Engineer, AWS - Amazon EKS in Vancouver, Canada. It pays CAD 115k-CAD 192k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Amazon.

Level's read on this job

Level rates this software engineer role Works on AI ●●●○: the daily work is on AI products, without building the model.
The posting mentions Kubernetes, AWS and distributed systems among its tools and skills.
Level classes it as a senior role.
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AI in this role

Build and manage global EKS control plane infrastructure, including Model Context Protocol servers and AI agent integration capabilities.

KubernetesAWS

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Join the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Control Plane team that manage the entire EKS fleet globally. We own the path from a customer's intent to a running cluster: the EKS API that accepts the request, the regional services that hold every cluster's desired state and orchestrate its lifecycle, the services that provision and repair the infrastructure that state describes, and the Kubernetes control plane that runs on it. We also own the availability commitment customers hold us to. And we own knowing what state every cluster is in: the health detection that catches a cluster broken by a change to the resources it depends on, the insights that tell a customer what will break before they upgrade, and the operational signals we stream back to them.

Amazon EKS now supports Kubernetes version rollback, which we built to enable customers mitigate operational risk with in place updates; customers can update normally and watch the new version carry production traffic, and rollback within 7 days if it does not hold, with their cluster state, workloads, and volumes untouched. We also made the control plane resilient to Availability Zone issues with no customer action, which turned a single zonal impairment into a non-event. We run all of this for every EKS cluster across all commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud, and on customer premises through AWS Outposts.

Innovation takes a village, and this team is the catalyst for it. Other EKS teams launch on our API and lifecycle services. AWS partner services like Amazon GuardDuty build customer-facing security features integrating with services we own. We also own the EKS Model Context Protocol server and the AI capabilities that enable how agents work with EKS.

This is an opportunity to operate and engineer distributed systems at scale, and to own the availability and resiliency of a service customers run their production workloads on. You will provide technical leadership and influence strategies to delight our customers. You will be solving challenging technical problems, often ones not solved before, alongside peers with remarkable technical expertise. The solutions you build will be high impact and rolled out to our large customer base across the world. If you are excited to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment to deliver results, we would love to hear from you!

This position involves on-call responsibilities, typically for one week every two months. We don't 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 don't get paged for the same issue again.

Basic qualifications

- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred qualifications

- 3+ 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 an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, 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.

The base salary range for this position is listed below. As a total compensation company, Amazon's package may include other elements such as sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life & AD&D insurance), Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP), Deferred Profit Sharing Plan (DPSP), paid time off, and other resources to improve health and well-being. We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those interviewed will be advised as to hiring status.

CAN, BC, Vancouver - 114,800.00 - 191,800.00 CAD annually

How we rate this

Software Development Engineer, AWS - Amazon EKS at Amazon rates 65 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Works on AI (AI Level 3 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Works on AI. The daily work is on AI products, without building the model.

●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

Key facts

Software Development Engineer, AWS - Amazon EKS is an open job at Amazon.
Level rates this role AI Level 3 of 4: Works on AI.
The listed salary is CAD 115k-CAD 192k a year.
The role is based in CA, BC, Vancouver.
The job was posted on August 17, 2026.
Seniority: senior.
Applications are handled by Amazon. Apply on Amazon

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

Distributed SystemsControl PlanesCloud InfrastructureKubernetesAWS

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What's a project where you used Kubernetes hands-on?
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