Senior Streaming Systems Engineer (Kafka/MSK)

Amazon Inc.; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 168,000 - 227,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

RSUs

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Job summary

Amazon is seeking engineers to design and build features for the Amazon MSK service, a fully managed Kafka-based streaming platform. You will impact the core data plane, collaborate across teams, and contribute back to open source while delivering high-performance systems at AWS scale.

The team emphasizes design, reliability, and scalability, with opportunities to influence roadmaps and mentor other engineers in a fast-paced cloud environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of non-internship software development experience.
• 5+ years programming in at least one language.
• 5+ years leading design or architecture for large scale systems.
• Experience as mentor or tech lead.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Design and build features for the MSK service and Kafka platform.
• Collaborate with engineers to scale and improve performance.
• Contribute to open source and AWS integration efforts.
• Define and execute on roadmap with senior leaders.

Skills

Software development

Programming languages

System design leadership

Mentorship / tech lead

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Amazon is seeking engineers to design and build features for the Amazon MSK service, a fully managed Kafka-based streaming platform. You will impact the core data plane, collaborate across teams, and contribute back to open source while delivering high-performance systems at AWS scale.

The team emphasizes design, reliability, and scalability, with opportunities to influence roadmaps and mentor other engineers in a fast-paced cloud environment.