Senior Software Engineer, Event Streaming Systems

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience building or operating distributed systems in production
• Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming systems
• Strong coding ability in Java, Go, Python or similar languages
• Experience operating scalable production infrastructure
• Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, observability, capacity management
• Good fundamentals in Linux, networking and JVM-based systems

Nice to Haves

• Experience contributing to Kafka or related open source distributed systems
• Experience with Redpanda, WarpStream, AutoMQ, Pulsar or similar technologies
• Experience with JVM tuning, broker tuning, partition management
• Experience with tiered storage, diskless streaming architectures
• Experience operating Tier-0 infrastructure at large scale

What You'll Be Doing

• Design, build and operate large-scale event streaming infrastructure
• Improve reliability, scalability, observability and automation of streaming platforms
• Debug complex distributed systems issues
• Build infrastructure automation and self-healing capabilities
• Contribute to incident response and continuous improvement

Perks and Benefits

• Solve meaningful problems at real scale
• See your impact quickly in a high-ownership environment
• Grow through challenge and ownership
• Work in a culture built for builders
• Competitive salary and equity options