Software Development Engineer, Amazon MSK

Salary: $143,400 - 143,400 per year Requirements:

• 3+ years of professional software development experience outside internships
• 2+ years of experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling
• Experience programming in at least one software language
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, and operations
• Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent
• Ideally, experience designing large-scale systems that support millions of transactions per second
• Ideally, in-depth knowledge of streaming technologies such as Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka
• Ideally, experience with open-source data processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Apache Flink, or Apache Storm
• Strong analytical, design, and problem-solving skills, with enthusiasm for data streaming and open-source contributions

• Design and build new features across the MSK service APIs and workflows, the core Kafka platform, and standalone Kafka operations tools
• Improve performance, explore and assess emerging technologies, and prototype solutions
• Build scalable services and test and review changes to deliver a strong customer experience
• Collaborate with engineers to develop a large-scale AWS service
• Work with senior leaders to shape the team roadmap and identify necessary design and code changes in underlying open-source platforms
• Contribute Kafka platform changes back to the open-source community

• AWS
• Flink
• Support
• Kafka
• Spark
• Cloud
• DevOps
• Web

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We are building the future of data streaming with Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK), a fully managed service that helps customers run Apache Kafka applications for processing streaming data at AWS scale. Our team works across open-source and Amazon-internal software, with upstream compatibility as a core principle. Based in Santa Monica, California, this role offers a base salary range of $143,400 annually, plus sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location. We provide comprehensive benefits, including health coverage, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave, along with mentorship, career-development resources, flexibility, and employee-led affinity groups. We welcome candidates with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

last updated 40 week of 2026