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Senior Kafka Platform Engineer(m/w/x)
Running Kafka at scale for Europe's largest savings platform, designing for high availability and resilience. Deep, hands-on Kafka expertise in production required. Flexible hybrid setup, relocation support.
Requirements
- 4+ years streaming, platform engineering, or related systems experience
- Deep, hands-on Kafka expertise in production
- Strong opinions on Kafka cluster architecture, scaling, replication, multi-cluster design, performance tuning, and security
- Solid backend engineering background
- Go preferred, any strong language welcome
- Familiarity with Kotlin/JVM is a plus
- Track record turning streaming best practices into adoptable standards
- Cloud-native mindset
- Hands-on with Kubernetes and IaC tooling
- Experience running production workloads on AWS or equivalent
- Ability to drive cross-team initiatives
- Clear communication of architectural trade-offs to engineers and leadership
Tasks
- Run Kafka at scale, ensuring reliability and uptime
- Design Kafka for high availability across domains and shards
- Engineer Kafka for resilience
- Ensure near-zero downtime during maintenance, upgrades, and failures
- Build the streaming platform's control plane
- Automate Kafka cluster lifecycle
- Provision Kafka topics and ACLs
- Implement cross-shard replication for Kafka
- Develop self-service interfaces for product engineers
- Define streaming best practices for producers and consumers
- Establish standards for topic design and schema management
- Guide consumer group patterns and reliability practices
- Embed best practices into the platform for ease of use
- Participate in the on-call rotation
- Ensure full ownership of built and operated systems
- Shape the streaming platform roadmap
- Drive cross-team initiatives
- Align the streaming platform with engineering and business goals
Work Experience
- 4 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- Kafka
- Go
- Kotlin
- JVM
- Kubernetes
- IaC tooling
- AWS
Benefits
Flexible Working
- Flexible hybrid setup
Other Benefits
- Relocation support
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Senior Kafka Platform Engineer(m/w/x)
Running Kafka at scale for Europe's largest savings platform, designing for high availability and resilience. Deep, hands-on Kafka expertise in production required. Flexible hybrid setup, relocation support.
Requirements
- 4+ years streaming, platform engineering, or related systems experience
- Deep, hands-on Kafka expertise in production
- Strong opinions on Kafka cluster architecture, scaling, replication, multi-cluster design, performance tuning, and security
- Solid backend engineering background
- Go preferred, any strong language welcome
- Familiarity with Kotlin/JVM is a plus
- Track record turning streaming best practices into adoptable standards
- Cloud-native mindset
- Hands-on with Kubernetes and IaC tooling
- Experience running production workloads on AWS or equivalent
- Ability to drive cross-team initiatives
- Clear communication of architectural trade-offs to engineers and leadership
Tasks
- Run Kafka at scale, ensuring reliability and uptime
- Design Kafka for high availability across domains and shards
- Engineer Kafka for resilience
- Ensure near-zero downtime during maintenance, upgrades, and failures
- Build the streaming platform's control plane
- Automate Kafka cluster lifecycle
- Provision Kafka topics and ACLs
- Implement cross-shard replication for Kafka
- Develop self-service interfaces for product engineers
- Define streaming best practices for producers and consumers
- Establish standards for topic design and schema management
- Guide consumer group patterns and reliability practices
- Embed best practices into the platform for ease of use
- Participate in the on-call rotation
- Ensure full ownership of built and operated systems
- Shape the streaming platform roadmap
- Drive cross-team initiatives
- Align the streaming platform with engineering and business goals
Work Experience
- 4 years
Education
- Bachelor's degreeOR
- Master's degree
Languages
- English – Business Fluent
Tools & Technologies
- Kafka
- Go
- Kotlin
- JVM
- Kubernetes
- IaC tooling
- AWS
Benefits
Flexible Working
- Flexible hybrid setup
Other Benefits
- Relocation support
About the Company
Trade Republic
Industry
FinancialServices
Description
Trade Republic is the largest savings platform in Europe, empowering everyone to build wealth with easy access to financial systems.
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