Amazon
Software Development Engineer, Amazon MSK
$144K–$194K
Santa Monica, CA · Full-time · Posted Jul 29, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
About the job
Build and improve Amazon MSK’s managed Kafka service, including its APIs, workflows, core platform, and open-source tools, to support customer streaming workloads at scale.
What you'll do
- Design and build features, scalable services, performance improvements, prototypes, and tests; review changes.
- Contribute to the Kafka platform and release code changes to open source while maintaining upstream compatibility.
- Collaborate on the AWS service and help define the team roadmap, including changes to underlying open-source platforms.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Pay
143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Amazon MSK, Apache Kafka, Amazon Kinesis, Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Apache Storm
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