Lead Data Streaming Engineer MSK Platform

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Santa Monica (CA)

On-site

USD 168,000 - 227,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. is seeking engineers for the Amazon MSK team to design and build features across the stack, including the Kafka platform, APIs, and related tooling. You will help deliver a scalable, high‑availability managed service for streaming data at AWS scale.

The role emphasizes contributing to open source, collaborating with senior leaders on roadmap, and mentoring others while solving complex data streaming challenges with modern technologies.

Qualifications

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.
Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Collaborate to build a large scale AWS service.
Design and implement features for MSK including APIs and Kafka platform components.
Contribute to open source and share improvements with the community.

Skills

Software development

Programming experience

System design

Mentorship

Engineering leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Spark

Flink

Storm

Job description

The role emphasizes contributing to open source, collaborating with senior leaders on roadmap, and mentoring others while solving complex data streaming challenges with modern technologies.

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