Senior Platform Engineer - Kafka

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, * 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., The moment when you sign our contract your onboarding journey starts. Depending on your notice period, you can start with us 14 working days after signing. We are aiming to provide the best onboarding experience for you, your manager and your future team. All the interactions with you are fully automated and designed with Enboarder, our onboarding technology partner, helps us to create a high level of engagement until your start. For people with longer notice periods, expect us to reach out to you 1 month before you start. Your talent advisor will stay in touch with you until then.

We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for your application, regardless to your nationality, ethnic or national origin, skin color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity. Your qualification and value add are the deciding factors!

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Do you have experience in Kubernetes?, * Strong hands-on experience with managed and self-hosted Kafka services (streams, broker, connect). With priority to Strimzi operator and AWS MSK.

• Good experience with managing Kubernetes clusters (EKS) with emphasis on performance and cost optimization.

• Strong understanding of event-driven architecture.

• Solid experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo suite).

• Expertise in monitoring, alerting, observability (metrics, logs, traces), and performance tuning.

With a predicted 25 billion connected IoT endpoints by 2025, the commercial and technological opportunities presented by the IoT are endless. Not to mention the career paths this exciting space has created. emnify stands out by delivering the next generation of connectivity technology to IoT solution providers worldwide - either directly or via strategic partnerships with CSPs. The most exciting thing about working at emnify is that we are just at the beginning of our journey. We are constantly developing our culture, people and our business approach further. Our guiding principles are driving transformation, customer centricity and empowering people. If you share our vision to unlock the potential of connectivity in a people focused culture that gives you the chance for impact, growth and to be successful together, we would be happy to join us., It's all about your growth. emnify puts a lot of effort into setting up different learning opportunities for everyone. We are currently focusing on leadership coaching with our partner Gallup with their strengthsfinder approach. We enable leaders to identify their strengths to continue their learning journey. We offer emerging leaders with our partner Junto to connect with other leaders from similar companies to learn together and grow a network. On top of that our employees benefit from lunch & learn sessions to learn and understand different parts of the business better and leverage the different skills from each other. Celebrate success together We empower leaders to spend some quality time with their teams and get together for dinners, workshops, or other fun activities. Building relationships in your team and beyond is key to form and maintain a high-performance culture that ensures a successful and competitive business. We want work to be fun and achieve challenging goals together. Beyond the quarterly events we also have company events like summer or christmas parties where everyone gets together to ensure people focused culture. Flexible working approach As a global company, our colleagues work around the world and in different time zones. Flexibility is key to us. emnify has chosen the hybrid approach to focus on growing their existing hubs further. Whereas our GTM organization in the US is completely remote because there is no hub for them yet. We offer professional relocation services, employer of record and remote working policy. We know great talents are spread around the world or have their families in different countries. We are not a remote culture. We believe driving transformation and embracing customer centricity can be done best in our hybrid working environment where we can learn and grow together.