Senior Software Engineer - Data Streaming & Kafka

Amazon; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 143,700 - 194,400; Full time

Job summary

Amazon MSK is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to help design and build features for a large-scale Kafka-based service. You will work across APIs, data paths, and tooling to deliver scalable streaming solutions for millions of transactions.

The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and collaboration with senior engineers to shape roadmaps and contribute to open source projects, with opportunities to influence both AWS-level services and Apache Kafka ecosystem.

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 and build features for a large-scale AWS service.
• Improve performance and reliability of streaming systems.
• Prototype solutions and build scalable services for MSK.
• Collaborate with engineers to define roadmaps and open source work.

Skills

Software development

System design / architecture

Programming languages

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Kafka

Spark / Flink / Storm

Job description

Amazon MSK is seeking a Software Development Engineer II to help design and build features for a large-scale Kafka-based service. You will work across APIs, data paths, and tooling to deliver scalable streaming solutions for millions of transactions.

The role emphasizes performance, reliability, and collaboration with senior engineers to shape roadmaps and contribute to open source projects, with opportunities to influence both AWS-level services and Apache Kafka ecosystem.