Data Streaming Engineer - Kafka/MSK at Scale

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 144,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking engineers to help build the Amazon MSK platform, a fully managed service for Kafka-based streaming applications. You will work on core data plane features, improve performance, and release changes back to open source, while shaping the team’s roadmap with senior leaders.

The role emphasizes building scalable systems that handle millions of transactions per second, with familiarity in streaming technologies like Kafka, Spark, Flink, or Storm, and a willingness

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.

Skills

Software development experience

Design/architecture experience

Programming language proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking engineers to help build the Amazon MSK platform, a fully managed service for Kafka-based streaming applications. You will work on core data plane features, improve performance, and release changes back to open source, while shaping the team’s roadmap with senior leaders.

The role emphasizes building scalable systems that handle millions of transactions per second, with familiarity in streaming technologies like Kafka, Spark, Flink, or Storm, and a willingness