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Senior Kafka Platform Engineer(m/w/x)

Berlin
Full-timeOn-siteSenior

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

  • EnglishBusiness 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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