# Sr Software Development Engineer - Amazon MSK, Managed Streaming for Kafka

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 core data plane stack 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

- **Id**: 3766578
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/amazon-sr-software-development-engineer-amazon-msk-managed-streaming-for-kafka>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Seattle, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T20:09:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-08T10:21:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 3
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 6761
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- **Benefits**: Health insurance, Parental leave, Restricted stock units
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Robotics AI, Logistics & Warehouse Robotics, Video Production, Developer Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 19
- **Name**: Amazon
- **Domain**: amazon.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/amazon>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Career site

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 4548
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.885
- **Repost share**: 0.003
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 168100
- **Max**: 227400
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 227400

## Technologies

- **Amazon EC2** — Optional: no
- **Amazon Kinesis** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Flink** — Optional: no
- **New Relic** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 3

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Management years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T20:09:53Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 23,961 · green card filings: 81; Filings 12m: 23961

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 3
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:3, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-08T05:47:12Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 227400
- **Is top pay**: yes

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