SDE II: Real‑Time Kafka & Data Streaming Platform

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

Job summary

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer II for the MSK team in Seattle to help design, build, and improve the managed Kafka service at scale. You will contribute across the stack—from APIs to core Kafka platform—and partner with teams to deliver reliable, high-performance features for customers.

The role emphasizes open source contributions, performance improvements, and mentoring other engineers, with a focus on scalable, maintainable systems in a fast-paced cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 2+ years of design or architecture experience of systems.
• Experience programming in at least one software language.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineers to build a large-scale AWS service.
• Define roadmap with senior leaders and identify design/code changes in open source platforms.
• Develop features, improve performance, prototype solutions, and review changes.

Skills

Software development experience

System design / architecture

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon is seeking a Software Development Engineer II for the MSK team in Seattle to help design, build, and improve the managed Kafka service at scale. You will contribute across the stack—from APIs to core Kafka platform—and partner with teams to deliver reliable, high-performance features for customers.

The role emphasizes open source contributions, performance improvements, and mentoring other engineers, with a focus on scalable, maintainable systems in a fast-paced cloud environment.