Senior Platform Engineer - Kafka & Developer Experience

Archer Recruitment; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A global Technology and Media organisation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Developer Experience & Productivity Engineering team in Toronto, Ontario. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Kafka and GCP, leading migrations and architectural initiatives on impactful projects. The role provides high autonomy within a supportive engineering environment, focusing on building self-service platforms and enhancing the developer experience.

Benefits

High autonomy

Strong engineering leadership support

Impactful organisation-wide initiatives

Qualifications

• Strong experience in building self-service platforms for developers.
• Hands-on experience with Kafka in production.
• Ability to work autonomously with architectural direction.

Responsibilities

• Build out a new API gateway and support a rebuild of the development environment.
• Lead migration from RabbitMQ to Kafka for big-data systems.
• Monitor and maintain platforms and systems related to Kafka.

Skills

Kafka expertise

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Building self-service platforms

Autonomy in architectural direction

Job description

A global Technology and Media organisation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Developer Experience & Productivity Engineering team in Toronto, Ontario. The ideal candidate will have strong experience with Kafka and GCP, leading migrations and architectural initiatives on impactful projects. The role provides high autonomy within a supportive engineering environment, focusing on building self-service platforms and enhancing the developer experience.