1 month ago
Base Salary
$144k - $194k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design and build new features for the Amazon MSK service and its core data plane.
- Develop scalable services and tools that improve the operation of Apache Kafka.
- Make performance improvements and investigate, prototype, and evaluate new technologies.
- Identify and implement design and code changes in underlying open-source platforms.
- Test and review changes while maintaining a strong customer experience.
- Collaborate with engineers and senior leaders to define the team’s technical roadmap.
- Contribute code changes to the Apache Kafka open-source community.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- At least 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.
- Preferred: at least 3 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.
- Experience with large-scale systems supporting millions of transactions per second and streaming technologies such as Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka is preferred.
- Experience with Apache Spark, Apache Flink, or Apache Storm is preferred.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, prescription, life and AD&D insurance, employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice, flexible spending accounts, adoption and surrogacy reimbursement, 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
- The compensation package may include sign-on payments and restricted stock units.
- The role is based in Seattle, Washington, USA; no remote or hybrid arrangement is stated.
- AWS provides mentorship, knowledge-sharing, learning experiences, and career-development resources.
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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.