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Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build new features for the Amazon MSK service, core Kafka platform, and related operational tools.
- Develop scalable, large-scale AWS services and contribute improvements to the underlying open-source Kafka platform.
- Make performance improvements, investigate technologies, prototype solutions, and solve complex software problems.
- Test and review code changes to deliver a strong customer experience.
- Collaborate with engineers and senior leaders to define the team roadmap and required design and code changes.
Requirements
- 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 2+ years of experience designing or architecting new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- 1+ year of software development engineer or related occupational experience.
- 1+ year designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded, or distributed software using C#, C++, Java, or Perl.
- 1+ year of object-oriented design experience.
- Bachelor’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language.
- Preferred: 3+ years covering the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Experience with large-scale systems supporting millions of transactions per second and streaming technologies such as Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka is desirable.
- Experience with Apache Spark, Apache Flink, or Apache Storm is desirable.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance, optional supplemental life plans, EAP, mental health support, a medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units; final compensation depends on experience, qualifications, and location.
- AWS provides work-life flexibility, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, career-growth resources, inclusive affinity groups, and learning experiences.
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About Amazon
Amazon builds and operates a global e-commerce marketplace, logistics network, and consumer devices, and provides cloud computing via AWS for businesses and developers. The company earns revenue from online retail, third‑party seller services, subscriptions like Prime, advertising, and AWS usage. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, it is publicly traded on NASDAQ (AMZN) and serves customers in dozens of countries.