Software Development Engineer II, Amazon MSK

Amazon • Seattle, WA

8d • $143,700 - $194,400 • Onsite

About The Position

We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II (SDE-2) to join the MSK (Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka) team. In this role, you will design, build, and operate large-scale distributed systems that form the backbone of the MSK Control Plane. You will work close to the infrastructure layer, writing software that provisions and manages compute across diverse environments and directly impact how millions of customers run their containerized workloads. As an SDE-2, you will own the end-to-end delivery of significant features, drive technical design decisions, and raise the bar on engineering and operational excellence across the team. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK) is one of AWS's fastest-growing analytics services — a fully managed platform that powers real-time data infrastructure for organizations ranging from crypto exchanges to electric vehicle manufacturers, from global banks to sports technology companies. MSK enables customers like Rivian to stream real-time analytics from electric vehicles, Coinbase to achieve 95% latency reductions for mission-critical financial services, and Goldman Sachs to architect entire transaction banking platforms. The streaming data landscape is evolving rapidly: generative AI workloads demand sub-millisecond event pipelines, global financial institutions need multi-region, zero-downtime data buses with enterprise-grade security, and the explosion of IoT and autonomous systems is rewriting assumptions about throughput and durability.

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

Responsibilities

• Design, implementation, deployment and maintenance of innovative software solutions to deliver new features in performance, cost, reliability.
• Use software engineering best practices to ensure the standard of quality of all team deliverables.
• Build and implement high quality distributed system software.
• Work in an agile development environment prioritizing most important and impactful projects.

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