Senior Platform Engineer, Event Streaming Platform (Kafka)

Requirements

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

Nice to Have

• Experience contributing to Kafka or related open source distributed systems.
• Experience with Redpanda, WarpStream, AutoMQ, Pulsar or similar streaming technologies.
• Experience with JVM tuning, broker tuning, partition management or Cruise Control.
• Experience with tiered storage, diskless streaming architectures or multi-region event streaming platforms.

What You'll Be Doing

You’ll be joining the team within the broader Storage organisation. The team builds and operates highly reliable, scalable and efficient event streaming infrastructure, including Kafka, in-house Event Streaming abstraction (internally called Event Bus) and any future streaming platform technologies. These systems support critical workflows and are foundational to how engineering teams build reliable, event-driven products at scale.

Here’s what your day-to-day might look like:

• Design, build and operate large-scale, event streaming infrastructure that supports critical production workloads.
• Improve the reliability, scalability, observability and automation of Kafka, Event Bus and related streaming components.
• Debug complex distributed systems issues — latency issues, performance bottlenecks, capacity constraints, partition imbalances — and drive them to resolution.
• Build infrastructure automation and self-healing capabilities that reduce operational toil and improve platform resilience.
• Contribute to the team’s 24/7 On-call rotation and incident response, and drive continuous improvement through pre-mortems, operational readiness checklists and post-mortem action items.
• Partner closely with other teams within Storage organization and wider Core Infrastructure org, like SRE, Data Platform, and Caching teams across EU and US regions — including occasional collaboration in the EU evening hours.
• Shape the long-term architecture and evolution of our event streaming platform, contributing to RFCs and technical strategy.

Perks and Benefits

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