Software Development Engineer - Apache Flink Engineer Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink

Come change the way world processes streaming data


The Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink (MSF) team is looking for a Software Development Engineer to work on Apache Flink framework. Were looking for engineers who can learn and build distributed stream processing engines. If you are a builder who is enthusiastic about data streaming and excited about contributing to open source this may be the role for you.

Realtime data processing from a stream needs substantial investments from customers in writing the application and maintaining the necessary infrastructure. MSF service provides customers with fully managed stream processing platform leveraging Apache Flink framework where customers can develop their applications using SQL or Java. With the service all that customers need to do is provide the application code that needs to be run containing the business logic to process the stream and service takes care of providing building blocks/abstractions such as processing windows semantics checkpoints and infrastructure capabilities such as elasticity failover etc. eliminating complexity of stream processing.


As a member of MSF team you will be:
working on making improvements to the stream processing engine Apache Flink to make MSF service the defacto service to run stream processing application
upstream compatibility is a core tenet of MSF service and your changes to improve the engine will be contributed back to open source

working on improving efficiency and availability of the engine adding ease of use features and push the envelope of stream processing

writing quality reusable code for highly scalable and reliable cloudbased services

working closely with product and development management to architect the service

being a champion for operational excellence by Insisting on the Highest Standards

writing code that continuously improves service reliability and availability



To be successful in this role you should have experience working on largescale systems enjoys solving complex software problems and possesses analytical design and problemsolving skills. While not necessary having experience with data processing technologies such as Apache Flink Apache Spark Apache Storm Hadoop frameworks is a plus.

Come join us to make stream processing main stream for our customers.


Work/Life Balance
Our team is familyoriented and values worklife balance. The Team is colocated in the Seattle office but were also flexible when people occasionally need to work from home. We generally keep core inoffice hours from 10am to 4pm. About half of us come in earlier and the other half of us stay later.

OnCall Responsibility

This position involves oncall responsibilities typically for one week every two months. We dont like getting paged in the middle of the night or on the weekend so we work to ensure that our systems are fault tolerant. When we do get paged we work together to resolve the root cause so that dont get paged for the same issue again.

Utility Computing (UC)
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About the team
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3 years of noninternship professional software development experience
2 years of noninternship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
Experience programming with at least one software programming language

3 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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Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. The base pay for this position ranges from $129300/year in our lowest geographic market up to $223600/year in our highest geographic market. Pay is based on a number of factors including market location and may vary depending on jobrelated knowledge skills and experience. Amazon is a total compensation company. Dependent on the position offered equity signon payments and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package in addition to a full range of medical financial and/or other benefits. For more information please visit This position will remain posted until filled. Applicants should apply via our internal or external career site.