Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Data Streaming

Socket.dev; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,100 - 227,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking engineers to contribute to Amazon MSK, a fully managed Apache Kafka service. You’ll design features, improve performance, and ship scalable solutions across the control plane, Kafka platform, and tooling, influencing upstream contributions and multi-cloud distributions.

You will collaborate with teams, mentor others, and help shape the roadmap while balancing performance, reliability, and cost considerations.

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.

Responsibilities

• Design features, improve performance, prototype solutions, and ship code that serves customers directly.
• Collaborate with engineers across the team and work with senior leaders to shape the roadmap.
• Identify what needs to change in the upstream platform to unlock customer needs next.

Skills

Software development

Programming

System design

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seeking engineers to contribute to Amazon MSK, a fully managed Apache Kafka service. You’ll design features, improve performance, and ship scalable solutions across the control plane, Kafka platform, and tooling, influencing upstream contributions and multi-cloud distributions.

You will collaborate with teams, mentor others, and help shape the roadmap while balancing performance, reliability, and cost considerations.