Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.

Technology

SoftwareDevelopmentEngineerII,AmazonMSK

$70–194k Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Software Development Engineer II, Amazon MSK at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Distributed systems, Software development, Cloud computing. Design software solutions. Implement software solutions”

Industry & Context.

Technology
Problems you'll solve

Root cause analysis

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3+ years software development experience, 2+ years system design experience, 1+ years software development engineer experience, 1+ years large-scale software applications experience, 1+ years Object Oriented Design experience, Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent, Experience programming one language

Nice to Have

3+ years full software development life cycle experience

What You'll Do.

Design software solutions

Implement software solutions

Deploy software solutions

Maintain software solutions

Use software engineering best practices

Ensure quality of deliverables

Build distributed system software

Implement distributed system software

Work in agile development environment

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Agile development environment

Process & Methodology

Agile

Full Job Description

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. Key job responsibilities Responsibilities include: - 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. About the team ABOUT AWS: D

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