Data-Streaming Software Engineer (Kafka/MSK)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Santa Monica is seeking engineers to build and operate the Amazon MSK service, a fully managed streaming data platform built on Apache Kafka.

You will contribute across the stack—from APIs and workflows to the core Kafka platform and open source tooling—delivering scalable, high-availability services for millions of transactions. The role emphasizes designing large-scale systems, solving complex software problems, and collaborating with senior leaders to

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.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other engineers to build a large-scale AWS service.
• Define and implement features across APIs, Kafka platform, and related tooling.
• Prototyping, testing, and reviewing changes to deliver a reliable customer experience.

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming language

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Santa Monica is seeking engineers to build and operate the Amazon MSK service, a fully managed streaming data platform built on Apache Kafka.

You will contribute across the stack—from APIs and workflows to the core Kafka platform and open source tooling—delivering scalable, high-availability services for millions of transactions. The role emphasizes designing large-scale systems, solving complex software problems, and collaborating with senior leaders to