Senior Platform Engineer - Kafka (d/f/m)

Overview

The team and your Role: As a part of the larger Engineering department, the Platform team plays a crucial role in enhancing emnify’s competitive edge by improving developer experience to increase development efficiency and scale productivity. You will join a growing team, fostering empathy and a collaboration mindset to ensure continuous improvement of development experience at emnify. The Platfor

What you'll do

• The team and your Role: As a part of the larger Engineering department, the Platform team plays a crucial role in enhancing emnify’s competitive edge by improving developer experience to increase development efficiency and scale productivity.
• You will join a growing team, fostering empathy and a collaboration mindset to ensure continuous improvement of development experience at emnify.
• The Platform team provides, in addition to the centrally managed infrastructure used by all the teams for observability and CI/CD, consultation and hands-on support to the engineering teams.
• As a platform engineer with Kafka expertise, you’ll take ownership of the Kafka clusters and their supporting infrastructure.
• You’ll support the team with the maintenance of our managed infrastructure Emnify technology radar The position is a hybrid position based in emnify’s office in Berlin.
• Your Impact: You’ll take part in designing, building, and maintaining the company’s multi-region, highly available, and performant Kafka infrastructure.
• Further, improve the developer experience of cross-functional teams to integrate their services using an event-driven architecture.
• You’ll manage and maintain the underlying infrastructure for our Kafka clusters.
• As part of the Platform team, you’ll continuously improve our CI/CD systems and concepts, enabling product teams to safely and efficiently deploy their applications on AWS-managed services and Kubernetes.
• You’ll collaborate with the product teams and take an active part in implementing new infrastructure and services, providing valuable insights and implementation recommendations to ensure the successful and timely delivery of the projects.

Requirements

• Practical experience with Infrastructure.
• Relevant academic or project background for a Senior Platform Engineer - Kafka (d/f/m) role.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working on-site in Berlin.

Skills