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Software Development Engineer, Amazon MSK

Santa Monica, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $143,700–$194,400🗓 2026-07-29 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and run the Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) service, a fully managed data streaming platform for Apache Kafka.

Role type

Senior IC software development engineer (data streaming)

Builds

Amazon MSK service, core Kafka platform, and stand-alone tools for the Kafka community

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, data streaming, open-source technologies

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

large-scale system design, software architecture, programming languages, streaming data technologies (Kinesis, Kafka), open-source frameworks (Spark, Flink, Storm)

Preferred skills

full software development life cycle experience, code reviews, source control, build processes, testing, operations

Technologies

Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Storm

Responsibilities

Design and build new features, make performance improvements, identify and investigate new technologies, prototype solutions, build scalable services, test and review changes

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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