Director, Software Engineering, Container Orchestration & Scheduling Services

Amazon • Seattle, WA

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About The Position

Imagine leading the engineering teams behind infrastructure that quietly powers
some of the world's most demanding workloads - processing billions of container
launches every week, orchestrating compute resources across the globe, and
enabling customers to focus on innovation rather than infrastructure complexity.
That's the opportunity in front of you.

We're looking for a Director of Engineering who thrives who thrives in the
demanding world of massive scale, operational rigor, and customer obsession.
You'll lead the teams building and operating container orchestration platforms
that our customers depend on for their most critical applications - the kind
where every millisecond of latency matters and where customers expect always-on
reliability and we deliver.

You'll be driving the technical evolution of container technologies, workload
scheduling systems, and platform infrastructure that needs to stay ahead of
exponentially growing customer demands. Your teams will tackle challenges like
supporting diverse customer workloads while balancing security with speed
,optimizing container performance at unprecedented scale, and building
scheduling algorithms that efficiently pack workloads while maintaining strict
isolation guarantees.

You'll have the autonomy to shape both business and technical strategy, the
resources to build world-class teams, and the direct customer impact that comes
from operating infrastructure at a massive scale. Your decisions will influence
how billions of containers are launched, scheduled, and managed every week.

We need someone who gets energized by operational excellence, who sees on-call
rotations not as burdens but as opportunities to build more resilient systems,
who treats every incident as a learning moment, and who believes that the best
way to serve customers is to obsess over the details that make systems reliable,
fast, and delightful to use.

If you're the kind of leader who can translate complex distributed systems
challenges into clear technical roadmaps, who mentors engineers to think like
owners, and who won't rest until your services achieve operational excellence
that sets industry benchmarks, we should talk.

Requirements

• Experience designing, building, operating, and managing large-scale distributed systems or web services
• 15+ years of software engineering experience with 5+ years in engineering leadership roles
• Deep expertise in container technologies (Docker, containerd, runc) and orchestration systems
• Strong understanding of Linux internals, virtualization technologies, and infrastructure automation

Nice To Haves

• Experience in Kubernetes, Docker or containers ecosystem
• Background in kernel development, systems programming, or low-level infrastructure
• Knowledge of security best practices for multi-tenant container environments
• Experience with cost optimization and resource efficiency at scale

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering teams responsible for building and operating massive-scale application lifecycle platforms serving thousands of enterprise customers
• Drive innovation in workload scheduling, resource allocation, and multi-tenant isolation technologies
• Drive technical vision and architecture for next-generation container runtime environments, image management systems, and workload scheduling infrastructure
• Establish operational excellence standards for systems processing billions of container launches weekly with industry-leading reliability metrics
• Own the operational health of large-scale distributed systems with stringent SLA requirements (99.95%+ availability)
• Build and scale teams focused on system reliability, performance optimization, and customer experience
• Implement comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and automated remediation strategies for complex distributed workloads
• Drive continuous improvement in operational metrics including latency, throughput, and resource efficiency
• Partner with enterprise customers to understand their container workload requirements and pain points
• Translate customer needs into technical roadmaps and feature priorities
• Ensure world-class customer experience through proactive monitoring, rapid incident response, and continuous service improvements
• Build mechanisms for gathering and acting on customer feedback at scale
• Build, mentor, and grow high-performing engineering teams across multiple locations
• Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, and operational excellence
• Establish engineering best practices, code quality standards, and technical review processes
• Develop talent pipeline and succession planning for critical technical roles

Benefits

• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed