Software Development Engineer, Container Systems

  • Amazon Web Services, Inc.
  • Seattle, Washington
  • 11/04/2026
Full time Information Technology Telecommunications

Job Description

Join AWS Elastic Container Service's Workload Optimization team to improve how quickly containerized workloads launch on Fargate. You'll build and optimize container startup and runtime systems, working across Linux, container runtimes, operating systems, and networking to deliver measurable customer impact at scale.

Responsibilities

  • Build and optimize container startup systems.
  • Develop and improve container runtime systems using Linux kernel, containerd/runc, and Bottlerocket.
  • Design and implement solutions across container networking.
  • Improve the instance preparation stack for containerized workloads.
  • Contribute to large-scale container orchestration systems and technical direction.

Required Skills

  • Software development
  • C++Java
  • Perl
  • Object-oriented design
  • System design and architecture
  • Distributed software development
  • Multi-threaded software development
  • Linux kernel and container runtime optimization