Senior platform engineer (m/f/d)

Sobre a vaga

As a Senior Platform Engineer (m/f/d), you will be responsible for operating and supporting a Kafka-based event streaming platform. You will handle day-to-day operations, resolve incidents, and ensure the platform remains stable, reliable, and available for internal users.

O que vais fazer

• Operate, monitor, and maintain the Kafka-based messaging platform on AWS/EKS, ensuring high availability, performance, resilience, and scalability
• Monitor platform health using logs, metrics, and tools such as Grafana and Loki, while identifying performance, capacity, and reliability issues
• Investigate and resolve incidents across Kafka brokers, producers, and consumers; perform root cause analysis and escalate complex issues when required
• Participate in L3/on-call rotations and provide reliable production support for critical, highly available distributed systems
• Execute operational tasks according to runbooks and SOPs, manage Kafka topics, ACLs, and schemas, and continuously improve processes and documentation
• Act as a key contact for internal platform users, provide technical guidance via collaboration tools, and translate user needs into actionable technical requirements
• Support GitLab CI/CD pipelines and contribute to infrastructure and configuration automation using GitOps, ArgoCD, and Helm
• Improve observability, performance, scalability, and operational efficiency while enabling self-service capabilities for authentication, access, and topic management

O que é pedido

• Strong experience with Apache Kafka and its ecosystem, including Kafka Connect and Schema Registry, with a solid understanding of distributed systems, partitioning, replication, scaling, and fault tolerance
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes/container orchestration (preferably EKS) and AWS services such as VPC, EKS, S3, IAM, networking, and PrivateLink
• Familiarity with Git, GitLab CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps practices using tools such as Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD
• Proven experience in IT/platform/production support, including troubleshooting, incident management, escalation, root cause analysis, runbooks, SOPs, and supporting highly available distributed systems
• Experience with Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Mimir, and Alloy (LGTM stack), with the ability to analyze system performance, latency, throughput, logs, and metrics
• Strong scripting skills in Bash, Python, or Go, with experience automating infrastructure and operational tasks, managing Kafka clusters, topics, ACLs, schemas, and data contracts
• Understanding of asynchronous communication and event-driven architectures, with basic Java knowledge and exposure to cloud-native platforms, container tooling, data integration, and large-scale messaging systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, excellent English communication, customer-focused approach, effective cross-team collaboration, and a proactive mindset toward automation, continuous improvement, and learning

O que é oferecido

• flexible working hours and the opportunity to work remotely
• tailor-made career with individual planning and team leaders who will support you in every way
• wide range of work-life balance options, supplementary health insurance and our EAP - Employee Assistant Program

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• Comida, fruta e bebida
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• Flex benefits
• Flexibilidade de horário
• Jogos no escritório
• Mais de 22 dias de férias
• Seguro de saúde

Valores e cultura (9)

• Ambiente internacional
• Códigos de alta qualidade
• Feedback contínuo e 360º
• Híbrido
• Igualdade racial
• LGBTQ+ friendly
• Membros impressionantes na equipa
• Metodologias agéis
• Tecnologias de ponta