Design and evolve our Kafka-as-a-Service platform built on Confluent Cloud, architecting scalable, secure, and resilient Kafka deployments across multiple regions
Job Summary
Design and evolve our Kafka-as-a-Service platform built on Confluent Cloud, architecting scalable, secure, and resilient Kafka deployments across multiple regions.
Guide engineering teams in designing event-driven architectures and provide best practices for topic design, partitioning strategies, consumer scaling, schema governance, and event versioning.
Improve platform reliability, monitoring, and incident response processes, participating in and helping lead on-call rotations and incident resolution.
Matching Summary
Design and evolve our Kafka-as-a-Service platform built on Confluent Cloud, architecting scalable, secure, and resilient Kafka deployments across multiple regions.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Kafka administration and operations
Confluent Cloud experience
Python, Java, or Go programming
AWS cloud infrastructure
Terraform for IaC
Distributed systems fundamentals
Nice-to-have
Platform engineering specialization
Self-service developer experiences
Global scale and high throughput design
Kubernetes distributed systems
High-throughput, low-latency systems
Observability platforms
Key Requirements
5-8 years professional software engineering
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent
Hands-on Kafka administration/operations
Experience with distributed systems in production
Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure
Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)