Software Development Engineer III — Neuron Containers, Neuron Containers, Annapurna Labs

Lead multi-person projects end-to-end from design documentation and architecture reviews through to delivery
Design container platform integrations device plugins DRA drivers and operator development for ML accelerator resource management
Solve scalability challenges diagnose performance issues across thousand-node customer clusters
Simplify systems deprecate legacy software and reduce complexity in container delivery pipelines
Drive operational excellence own on-call responsibilities proactively triage test failures and drive ticket resolution
Elevate team quality deliver insightful code reviews and set the standard through your own contributions
Build consensus align stakeholders on technical direction when solutions are ambiguous or views are discordant

About the team
Neuron Containers connects the Neuron SDK to compute platforms. The team enables customers to run training and inference workloads on Neuron at scale with reliable device allocation fault tolerance auto-scaling and native observability. The team owns Neuron integration with Kubernetes ECS and Slurm.

- 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 5 years of programming with at least one software programming language experience
- 5 years of leading design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Experience as a mentor tech lead or leading an engineering team
- 7 years of software development experience
- 4 years of distributed systems experience or Bachelors degree in engineering technology computer science machine learning robotics operations research statistics mathematics or equivalent quantitative field
- Experience in large-scale IT deployment or programming
- Experience leading engineering design projects and interacting with cross-functional teams
- Proficiency in Go or similar systems languages

- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
- Experience with Kubernetes architecture device plugins schedulers controllers DRA drivers
- Hands-on experience with Helm Prometheus Kubernetes operator frameworks
- Familiarity with ML training/inference infrastructure and container image pipelines
- Experience with AWS compute services (EC2 EKS ECS ECR)
- Exposure to Deep Learning Containers or Deep Learning AMIs

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including 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 and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at CA Cupertino - 193300.00 - 261500.00 USD annually