[Remote] Software Development Engineer II - Amazon MSK, Managed Streaming Kafka (MSK)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud platform provider, and its Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka team builds fully managed services for customers processing streaming data with Apache Kafka. The Software Development Engineer II will contribute across APIs, service workflows, the Kafka platform, and open-source tools while designing scalable features, improving performance, researching technologies, and collaborating on the service roadmap.

Responsibilities

• 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
• 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
• Collaborating with other engineers to build a large scale AWS service, and work with senior leaders to define your team's roadmap, including identifying design and code changes needed in the underlying open source platforms

Skills

• • 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
• • 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

Benefits

• Sign-on payments
• Restricted stock units (RSUs)
• Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance, and an option for supplemental life plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Mental Health Support
• Medical Advice Line
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage
• 401(k) matching
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Flexible work hours and arrangements
• Employee-led affinity groups
• Ongoing events and learning experiences
• Knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources

Company Overview

Launched in 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) began exposing key infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services -- now widely known as cloud computing. It was founded in 2002, and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is http://aws.amazon.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7552 in 2026, 22803 in 2025, 21175 in 2024, 19057 in 2023, 24088 in 2022, 12233 in 2021, 14881 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.