Amazon
Software Development Engineer II - Amazon MSK, Managed Streaming Kafka (MSK)
$144K–$194K
Seattle, WA · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development; 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience.
About the job
Build and operate features across Amazon MSK’s managed Kafka service, including service APIs and workflows, the Kafka platform, and tools for Kafka operators, while contributing relevant platform changes to open source.
What you'll do
- Design and build features, improve performance, prototype solutions, and test and review changes for a scalable AWS service.
- Collaborate with engineers and senior leaders to shape the service roadmap and identify changes to underlying open-source platforms.
- Develop service and platform changes that support customer streaming-data workloads and contribute Kafka code changes upstream.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of non-internship experience in design or architecture of 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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