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Software Development Engineer II - Amazon MSK, Managed Streaming Kafka (MSK)

Seattle, Washington, United States💼 Full-time💰 $143,700–$194,400🗓 2026-08-13 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and build new features, make performance improvements, and prototype solutions for Amazon MSK, a fully managed Apache Kafka service for processing streaming data at AWS scale.

Role type

Senior IC backend 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, Apache Kafka, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Storm, software architecture, reliability and scaling

Preferred skills

Full software development life cycle, coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, operations

Technologies

Amazon MSK, 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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