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 as passionate about contributing to open source as they are 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 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. Upstream compatibility is a core tenet of MSK. Your code changes to the Kafka platform will be released back to open source. As a member of an AWS service that builds on top of a popular open source technology, this is a unique opportunity to work on a team that straddles both worlds - open source and Amazon-internal software. 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.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with other engineers to build a large scale AWS service.
- Work with senior leaders to define your team's roadmap.
- Identify design and code changes needed in the underlying open source platforms.
- Design and build new features for the Amazon MSK service.
- Make performance improvements to the Kafka platform.
- Prototype solutions and build scalable services.
- Test and review changes to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
Requirements
- 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
- 5+ years of programming with at least one software programming language experience.
- 5+ years of leading design or architecture of new and existing systems experience.
- Experience as a mentor, tech lead or leading an engineering team.
Nice-to-haves
- 5+ years of full software development life cycle experience.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
Benefits
- Flexible working culture.
- Mentorship and career growth opportunities.
- Diverse and inclusive team culture.
