Kafka SRE

Quick Facts

• Role: Kafka SRE

• Focus: Kafka platform engineering, infrastructure automation, and production support

Description

Join a global engineering environment focused on building, maintaining, and optimizing a reliable and scalable Kafka streaming platform. You will administer Kafka clusters and ecosystem components on Kubernetes, including brokers/ZooKeeper or KRaft, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry, while automating operations and improving observability and performance. The work includes production troubleshooting, RCA, and continuous resilience and efficiency improvements.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain Kafka infrastructure: brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry

• Manage Kafka components on Kubernetes (scaling, upgrades, configuration, troubleshooting)

• Administer Kafka clusters: provisioning, topic management, and access permissions/role bindings

• Configure and maintain Kafka Connect connectors for integrations with MQ, Splunk, MongoDB, and GCP Pub/Sub

• Implement monitoring, alerting, and observability to ensure platform reliability

• Automate infrastructure operations and maintenance using scripting and DevOps tooling

• Perform performance benchmarking, analysis, and tuning

• Troubleshoot production issues, conduct RCA, and implement preventative improvements

• Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams and stakeholders

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and/or Confluent Kafka

• Deep understanding of Kafka architecture, including brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect, and Schema Registry

• Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerized infrastructure

• Experience administering, maintaining, and troubleshooting production Kafka clusters

• Knowledge of Kafka Connect (connectors, workers, tasks, converters, SMTs)

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation

• Knowledge of monitoring, performance tuning, and incident management

• Familiarity with DevOps tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Jira, and Confluence

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and technical communication skills

• Very good English communication skills and ability to work in a global environment

Benefits

• Extended medical care (over 2000 medical facilities in Poland, 80 in Kraków) for you and your family

• Multisport card

• Life insurance