Senior Platform Engineer (Confluent Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes)

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Platform Engineer (Integration, Messaging, Streaming)

• Focus: Confluent Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes

• Work mode: Hybrid (in-office 3 days/week)

• Employment: Direct hire, full-time

Description

You will architect, develop, and optimize secure, scalable, and highly available integration, messaging, and streaming platforms. The role emphasizes engineering excellence, automation, developer self-service, platform reliability, and continuous improvement across Kafka and integration middleware. You will partner with engineering and business stakeholders and collaborate with security, risk, and compliance teams.

Responsibilities

• Build and optimize secure, scalable, highly available integration/messaging/streaming platforms supporting core business applications

• Deliver capabilities across the Internal Developer Platform lifecycle with engineers and product stakeholders

• Improve developer productivity through developer self-service and platform automation

• Strengthen platform reliability using observability, tracing, alerting, testing, and secure coding practices

• Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance teams to protect enterprise systems

• Lead platform engineering initiatives, drive engineering standards, and mentor engineers (Senior level IC)

Requirements

• 8+ years platform architecture or systems engineering across public/private cloud environments

• 3+ years designing, deploying, operating, and troubleshooting enterprise messaging platforms (Confluent Cloud/Kafka preferred)

• 8+ years building cloud infrastructure with Kubernetes and AWS services (Route53, ELB, ALB)

• Full-stack engineering experience using Java/Spring Boot, REST APIs, OpenAPI/Swagger, plus Python and modern front-end technologies

• Infrastructure as Code and DevOps automation experience (Terraform, GitOps, CI/CD; Harness preferred), including automated deployments, testing, and observability

• Proficiency in GitOps, CI/CD, testing, secure coding, tracing, and alerting

• Hands-on experience deploying stateful geo-distributed applications using Kubernetes and AWS services with industry-standard CI/CD tools (Harness preferred)

• Preferred: 3+ years with Confluent Cloud/Kafka, API gateway, MSK, messaging streaming platforms; IaC-based public cloud deployment and troubleshooting

• Knowledge of observability for distributed platforms

• Understanding of TLS certificate chains and the TLS security framework

• Experience in Agile/SCRUM methodologies with product-delivery focus

Benefits

• Direct hire, full-time role

• Hybrid schedule: in-office 3 days per week