The Software Development Engineer II (SDE-2) role on the MSK team focuses on designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed systems that support the MSK Control Plane. This position involves working closely with the infrastructure layer to manage compute across various environments, impacting how millions of customers run their containerized workloads. The SDE-2 will take ownership of significant features, drive technical design decisions, and enhance engineering excellence within the team. Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka is a rapidly growing service that provides real-time data infrastructure for diverse organizations.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• 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
• 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
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience

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

• Employees at Amazon are often offered comprehensive health benefits—including multiple medical plan options (no pre-existing condition exclusions, 100% covered in-network preventive care), dental and vision plans, a 24/7 medical advice line from day one, expert second-opinion services, and broad mental-health support with several free counseling sessions (including pediatric). Financial wellness typically includes a 401(k) with company match (up to 2%), Restricted Stock Units (equity), FSAs, an emergency savings program, product and partner discounts, and even college-savings and home-purchase programs. Overall, the package is designed to support employees and their families’ health, finances, and day-to-day life.