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Base Salary
$168k - $227k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build new features for the Amazon MSK service, core Kafka platform, and Kafka operational tools.
- Contribute code changes upstream to the Apache Kafka open-source project.
- Build scalable services, improve performance, investigate technologies, prototype solutions, and deliver customer-focused capabilities.
- Test and review software changes across the service and underlying open-source platforms.
- Collaborate with engineers and senior leaders to define the team roadmap and required design and code changes.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 5 years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
- At least 5 years of experience leading the design or architecture of new and existing systems, including design patterns, reliability, and scaling.
- Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
- Preferred: at least 5 years of full software development lifecycle experience, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Preferred: bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.
- Preferred: experience with large-scale systems, data streaming technologies, and open-source data-processing frameworks.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health insurance, including medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
- Employee assistance program, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
- 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the compensation package.
- Work-life flexibility, mentorship, knowledge-sharing, affinity groups, and career-development resources.
- Position is based in Seattle, Washington, with the stated compensation range paid annually.
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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.