Engineering Manager, Kafka-Based Streaming Platform

Amazon Inc.; Santa Monica (CA); On-site; USD 185,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is hiring a Software Development Manager for the Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) team in Santa Monica. You will lead the design and delivery of the MSK service, solving scale and data streaming challenges while working with PMs and engineers to shape the roadmap.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to open source, and help drive AWS-scale impact across streaming platforms and services.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of engineering team management experience.
• 7+ years working directly within engineering teams.
• 3+ years designing or architecting scalable systems.
• 8+ years leading the development of multi-tier web services.

Responsibilities

• You recruit and grow technical staff.
• You own the software development lifecycle and operational metrics for the service.
• You partner with the product managers to define and execute the product roadmap.
• You contribute to open source and present at community events.

Skills

Engineering team management

Leading multi-tier systems

Product-management collaboration

Open source involvement

Communication with leadership

Tools

Apache Kafka

Spark

Flink

Kubernetes

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is hiring a Software Development Manager for the Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) team in Santa Monica. You will lead the design and delivery of the MSK service, solving scale and data streaming challenges while working with PMs and engineers to shape the roadmap.

You will mentor engineers, contribute to open source, and help drive AWS-scale impact across streaming platforms and services.