SDE II: Large-Scale Kafka Fleet Automation

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 Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking engineers to design and build automation that patches and maintains hundreds of thousands of stateful hosts, ensuring fleet health and seamless customer experience.

You will implement automatic health detection, rollout mechanisms, and end-to-end ownership, collaborating across MSK teams to improve reliability and reduce manual toil in a highly scalable environment.

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

• Design, build, and operate automation that patches and maintains hundreds of thousands of stateful hosts, keeping fleet maintenance invisible to customers.
• Build systems that automatically detect unhealthy hosts and remediate them, balancing fast recovery against avoiding needless disruption.
• Develop rollout and rollback mechanisms that keep the blast radius of any change small at fleet scale, and that let changes be tested before they reach customers and reversed if something goes wrong.
• Own your services end to end: take part in on-call, debug production issues, and continually reduce the manual effort needed to operate the fleet.
• Write design documents, collaborate with engineers across MSK, and raise the engineering bar through design and code reviews.

Skills

Software development

System design

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle, WA is seeking engineers to design and build automation that patches and maintains hundreds of thousands of stateful hosts, ensuring fleet health and seamless customer experience.

You will implement automatic health detection, rollout mechanisms, and end-to-end ownership, collaborating across MSK teams to improve reliability and reduce manual toil in a highly scalable environment.