Senior Software Development Engineer Amazon MSK

Come build the future of data streaming with the Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) team!

We are seeking builders for our Amazon MSK service a fully managed service that makes it easy for customers to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data. We are looking for engineers who are enthusiastic about data streaming and are as passionate about contributing to open source as they are about solving real customers business needs at AWS scale.

As a member of the Amazon MSK team you will be making contributions to the entire stack the APIs and the workflows that make up the MSK service the core Kafka platform and standalone tools that make it easier for Kafka community to operate Kafka better. Upstream compatibility is a core tenet of MSK. Your code changes to the Kafka platform will be released back to open source. As a member of an AWS service that builds on top of a popular open source technology this is a unique opportunity to work on a team that straddles both worlds open source and Amazoninternal software. You will design and build new features make performance improvements identify and investigate new technologies prototype solutions build scalable services and test and review changes to deliver an exceptional customer experience.

The ideal candidate has experience designing largescale systems supporting millions of transactions per second enjoys solving complex software problems and possesses analytical design and problemsolving skills. Ideally you have an indepth understanding of streaming data technologies like Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka and experience with opensource data processing frameworks like Apache Spark Apache Flink or Apache Storm. Your responsibilities will include collaborating with other engineers to build a large scale AWS service and work with senior leaders to define your teams roadmap including identifying design and code changes needed in the underlying open source platforms.

Learn more about Amazon MSK: AWS re:Invent 2018: Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (Amazon MSK) Launch

* AWS re:Invent 2020: How Goldman Sachs uses an Amazon MSK backbone for Transaction Banking Platform
* AWS re:Invent 2020: How New Relic is migrating its Apache Kafka cluster to Amazon MSK
* AWS re:Invent 2021: How Coinbase uses Amazon MSK as an event store for applications
* MSK Tiered Storage: Optimize cost and improve Kafka scalability
* AWS re:Invent 2023: How Rivian builds realtime analytics from electric vehicles

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5 years of noninternship 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

5 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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