Full Stack SDE II, AWS MSK

Amazon • Santa Monica, CA

2d

About The Position

Come build the future of data streaming with the Amazon Managed Streaming for
Kafka (MSK) team!

We are seeking builders for our Amazon MSK service, a fully managed service that
makes it easy for customers to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka
to process streaming data. We are looking for engineers who are enthusiastic
about data streaming, and are passionate about solving real customers' business
needs, at AWS scale.

As a member of the Amazon MSK team, you will be making contributions to the
entire stack - the Console, APIs and the workflows that make up the MSK service,
the core Kafka platform, and stand-alone tools that make it easier for Kafka
community to operate Kafka better. You will design and build new features, make
performance improvements, identify and investigate new technologies, prototype
solutions, build scalable services, and test and review changes, to deliver an
exceptional customer experience.

The ideal candidate has experience designing large-scale systems supporting
millions of transactions per second, enjoys solving complex software problems,
and possesses analytical, design and problem-solving skills. Ideally you have an
in-depth understanding of streaming data technologies like Amazon Kinesis or
Apache Kafka, and experience with open-source data processing frameworks like
Apache Spark, Apache Flink, or Apache Storm. Your responsibilities will include
collaborating with other engineers to build a large scale AWS service, and work
with senior leaders to define your team's roadmap, including identifying design
and code changes needed in the underlying open source platforms.

Requirements

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years 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

Nice To Haves

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• experience designing large-scale systems supporting millions of transactions per second
• enjoys solving complex software problems
• possesses analytical, design and problem-solving skills
• in-depth understanding of streaming data technologies like Amazon Kinesis or Apache Kafka
• experience with open-source data processing frameworks like Apache Spark, Apache Flink, or Apache Storm

Responsibilities

• design and build new features
• make performance improvements
• identify and investigate new technologies
• prototype solutions
• build scalable services
• test and review changes
• collaborating with other engineers to build a large scale AWS service
• work with senior leaders to define your team's roadmap, including identifying design and code changes needed in the underlying open source platforms

Benefits

• full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits
• equity
• sign-on payments

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level