Senior Platform Engineer: Streaming & Event-Driven

Medallia; Buenos Aires; Híbrido; ARS 179.773.000 - 239.697.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Medallia is seeking a hands-on Senior Platform Software Engineer to operate streaming platforms at scale. You will ensure availability and reliability of Kafka, Flink, Debezium, and Apicurio within Platform Services.

Based in the Buenos Aires vicinity, this hybrid role requires 3 days onsite weekly. You will lead incident triage, optimize performance, and collaborate across engineering teams to standardize patterns.

Formación

• 5 years of experience in software, systems, platform, DevOps, or reliability engineering.
• 3 years of experience operating distributed platforms in production.
• Hands-on Apache Kafka operations: configuring, scaling, and operating production Kafka clusters.
• Experience diagnosing distributed systems incidents across networks, data loss, or high-latency failures.
• Proficiency in Java, Go, Python, or similar programming languages.
• Professional working English proficiency, spoken and written.

Responsabilidades

• Operate and maintain Kafka, Flink, Debezium, and Apicurio platforms.
• Manage Kafka brokers, partitions, replication, ISR health, consumer groups, upgrades, and recovery.
• Troubleshoot producer, consumer, networking, authentication, serialization, and consumer-lag issues.
• Operate Flink runtime components and jobs, including checkpoints, savepoints, state, scaling, and recovery.
• Manage Debezium connector lifecycle, offsets, snapshots, failures, and schema changes.
• Support schema evolution and compatibility through Apicurio Registry.
• Lead production incident triage, root-cause analysis, and performance tuning.
• Review event-driven architectures and recommend reliable and scalable platform patterns.
• Build automation, observability, alerts, documentation, and operational playbooks.
• Participate in a periodic on-call rotation to maintain 24/7 reliability and performance of production services.

Conocimientos

Java

Go

Python

Kafka

Flink

Debezium

Apicurio

Kubernetes

English (fluent)

Herramientas

Apache Kafka

Apache Flink

Debezium

Apicurio Registry

Descripción del empleo

Medallia is seeking a hands-on Senior Platform Software Engineer to operate streaming platforms at scale. You will ensure availability and reliability of Kafka, Flink, Debezium, and Apicurio within Platform Services.

Based in the Buenos Aires vicinity, this hybrid role requires 3 days onsite weekly. You will lead incident triage, optimize performance, and collaborate across engineering teams to standardize patterns.