Senior Software Engineer, AWS Container Registry

AWS is the world's most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, pioneering cloud computing and continuously innovating.
$151,300 - $261,500
Backend
Senior Software Engineer
In-Person
5,000+ Employees
5+ years of experience
Enterprise SaaS · Cloud

Description For Senior Software Engineer, AWS Container Registry

Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR) is seeking a Senior Software Development Engineer to join their team in building and extending their container registry service. ECR plays a crucial role in containerized applications and workflows on AWS, requiring high performance, scalability, and security. The team is focused on enhancing developer tools, security features, and solving challenging technical problems like reducing container launch times.

As a senior engineer, you'll be part of the Utility Computing (UC) organization, which drives product innovations across AWS's foundational services including S3, EC2, and other core offerings. The role offers an opportunity to shape how developers use containers at scale and contribute to AWS's continued leadership in cloud computing.

The position combines technical leadership with hands-on development, requiring expertise in system design, scalability, and mentorship. You'll work on critical infrastructure that powers countless containerized applications, while helping to evolve the container ecosystem within AWS.

AWS values diverse experiences and work-life harmony, offering comprehensive benefits and career growth opportunities. The team culture emphasizes continuous learning, inclusion, and mentorship. This is an excellent opportunity for experienced engineers passionate about distributed systems, containerization, and building developer-focused services at scale.

The compensation is competitive, ranging from $151,300 to $261,500 base salary depending on location, plus equity and additional benefits. The role offers the chance to work on technology that impacts millions of developers and organizations worldwide.

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Responsibilities For Senior Software Engineer, AWS Container Registry

  • Build and extend Amazon Elastic Container Registry (ECR)
  • Work on scaling services to match growing customer demands
  • Improve container launch times within AWS
  • Build high quality services and developer tools
  • Help make containers the new compute primitive

Requirements For Senior Software Engineer, AWS Container Registry

Kubernetes
  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
  • 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language
  • 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems
  • Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team

Benefits For Senior Software Engineer, AWS Container Registry

Medical Insurance
401k
  • Full range of medical benefits
  • Financial benefits
  • Work-life harmony
  • Mentorship and career growth opportunities

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