Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Data Streaming (Kafka/MSK)

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RSUs

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle is hiring for the Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) team. Join engineers building a fully managed service that enables customers to run Apache Kafka at scale.

You will design and ship features across APIs, core Kafka platform, and open source components, collaborating with leaders to shape roadmaps and deliver a great customer experience. This role emphasizes problem solving, large-scale systems, and open source contributions, with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
• 5+ years of programming with at least one language.
• 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems.
• Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to build large-scale AWS service components.
• Contribute to APIs, Kafka core platform and related tools.
• Define and influence team roadmaps and design decisions.

Skills

5+ years software development

Architectural design

Mentoring/leadership

Open source experience

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent

Job description

Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc. in Seattle is hiring for the Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) team. Join engineers building a fully managed service that enables customers to run Apache Kafka at scale.

You will design and ship features across APIs, core Kafka platform, and open source components, collaborating with leaders to shape roadmaps and deliver a great customer experience. This role emphasizes problem solving, large-scale systems, and open source contributions, with