In this role, you will be responsible for maintaining one of the largest Apache Kafka fleets at Amazon MSK, ensuring it remains healthy, secure, and available. You will design and build automation systems that manage hundreds of thousands of stateful hosts, allowing customers to focus on their applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure. The team emphasizes operational reliability and automation, aiming to reduce manual efforts through innovative solutions. You will work closely with engineers across MSK to improve system design and performance.

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture experience of new and existing systems
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language
• 3+ years of full software development life cycle experience, including coding standards and operations
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

• Design, build, and operate automation that patches and maintains hundreds of thousands of stateful hosts.
• Build systems that automatically detect unhealthy hosts and remediate them.
• Develop rollout and rollback mechanisms to keep the blast radius of any change small.
• Own your services end to end, participate in on-call duties, and debug production issues.
• Write design documents and collaborate with engineers across MSK.

• 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.