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Software Development Engineer, Amazon MSK

Santa Monica, California, United States💼 Full-time💰 $168,100–$227,400🗓 2026-07-29 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build new features, make performance improvements, and prototype solutions for the Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka (MSK) service and the core Kafka platform.

Role type

Senior IC software development engineer (data streaming)

Builds

APIs, workflows, and tools for the MSK service and the Kafka platform

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, data streaming, open source

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Large-scale system design, software architecture, mentoring, leading engineering teams, complex problem solving

Preferred skills

Full software development life cycle experience, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, 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 with leadership responsibilities

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