Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.
Technology
SoftwareDevelopmentEngineerII-AmazonMSK,ManagedStreamingKafka(MSK),MSKHoover
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“Software Development Engineer II - Amazon MSK, Managed Streaming Kafka (MSK), MSK Hoover at Amazon Development Center U.S., Inc.. Skills: Distributed systems, Large-scale automation, Infrastructure engineering. Design automation to patch hosts. Maintain hundreds of thousands of hosts”
What You'll Achieve.
Keep fleet healthy, secure, always on; Ensure customer availability guarantees; Make maintenance invisible to customers; Reduce manual effort
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting
On-call rotation
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years software development experience, 2+ years system design or architecture experience, Experience programming one language
Nice to Have
3+ years full SDLC experience, Bachelor's degree in computer science
What You'll Do.
Design automation to patch hosts
Maintain hundreds of thousands of hosts
Keep fleet maintenance invisible
Build systems to detect unhealthy hosts
Remediate unhealthy hosts
Develop rollout mechanisms
Develop rollback mechanisms
Test changes before customers
Reverse changes if needed
Debug production issues
Reduce manual effort to operate fleet
Write design documents
Collaborate with engineers
Raise engineering bar
Conduct design reviews
Improve automation for new cases
Push routine work into systems
Feed manual steps into automation
Recover unhealthy hosts automatically
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaborate with engineers; Partner with engineering; Partner with product; Partner with operations
Communication Scope
Write design documents
Full Job Description
Come keep one of the world's largest Apache Kafka fleets healthy, secure, and always on. On Amazon MSK, you will build the automation that maintains hundreds of thousands of streaming hosts, so customers never have to think about the infrastructure underneath their applications. This is infrastructure engineering at a scale where every change has to be safe by design. MSK is stateful: every host holds customer data that must stay replicated and in sync, so routine maintenance is never as simple as rebooting or replacing a host. Patching, repairing, and replacing nodes across a fleet this size means coordinating each action against the availability guarantees customers depend on, so that maintenance stays invisible to them. You will design and build the automation that does this, turning hard operational problems into systems that run themselves. If you enjoy distributed systems, large-scale automation, and work whose reliability countless streaming applications quietly depend on, this is a rare place to do it. Key job 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 your 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. A day in the life No two days look the same, but most blend building with operating. You might spend the morning designing a safer way to roll out a fleet-wide change, pair
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