Software Development Engineer II - Amazon MSK, Managed Streaming Kafka (MSK), MSK Infrastructure Management

Amazon • Seattle, WA

9d • $143,700 - $194,400 • Onsite

About The Position

This role focuses on maintaining the health, security, and availability of one of the world's largest Apache Kafka fleets. The engineer will develop automation to manage hundreds of thousands of streaming hosts, ensuring customers are unaware of the underlying infrastructure. The work involves large-scale automation and distributed systems, with a strong emphasis on safety by design due to the stateful nature of the data. The goal is to turn complex operational challenges into self-running systems, making maintenance invisible to customers.

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
• 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

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate automation that patches and maintains hundreds of thousands of stateful hosts, keeping fleet maintenance invisible to customers.
• Build systems that automatically detect unhealthy hosts and remediate them, balancing fast recovery against avoiding needless disruption.
• Develop rollout and rollback mechanisms that keep the blast radius of any change small at fleet scale, and that let changes be tested before they reach customers and reversed if something goes wrong.
• Own services end to end: take part in on-call, debug production issues, and continually reduce the manual effort needed to operate the fleet.
• Write design documents, collaborate with engineers across MSK, and raise the engineering bar through design and code reviews.

Benefits

• sign-on payments
• restricted stock units (RSUs)
• health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
• 401(k) matching
• paid time off
• parental leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree