Platform Engineer

Archer Recruitment; Eu; Sur place; EUR 70 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A global Technology and Media organisation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for their Developer Experience & Productivity Engineering team. The role involves building a new API gateway, leading a migration from RabbitMQ to Kafka, and maintaining platforms and systems. Candidates should have strong experience in building self-service platforms and hands-on Kafka expertise. This position offers high autonomy and the opportunity to shape internal developer tooling, making a significant impact on engineering initiatives.

Qualifications

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

Responsabilités

• Build out a new API gateway and support a broad rebuild of the development environment.
• Lead the migration from RabbitMQ to Kafka for internal big-data systems.
• Participate in a rotation handling developer requests and operational tasks.
• Monitor and maintain platforms and systems deployed, particularly Kafka.

Connaissances

building self-service platforms

Kafka

Google Cloud Platform

autonomous work

Description du poste

A global Technology and Media organisation is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join their Developer Experience & Productivity Engineering team.

This role would suit an experienced Platform Engineer keen to work on high-impact projects at a global level.

Key Responsibilities

• Build out a new API gateway and support a broader rebuild of the development environment. Kick-off is planned for early January.

• Lead the migration from RabbitMQ to Kafka for internal big-data systems. This is a critical, high-priority initiative requiring deep Kafka expertise.
• Participate in a rotation handling developer requests, approvals, feature queries, and operational tasks to shield the engineering team from interruptions.
• Monitor, maintain, and respond to incidents related to platforms and systems you deploy—particularly Kafka.

Essential Experience

• Strong experience building self-service platforms for developers. You understand the difference between enabling teams and traditional DevOps execution.
• Hands‑on experience standing up, configuring, and operating Kafka in production. You must be able to lead a full migration effort independently.
• Ability to hit the ground running and work autonomously, taking architectural direction from a staff engineer.
• Strong experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a significant advantage.

Why You’ll Love It?

• Work on impactful, organisation‑wide engineering initiatives
• Join a team that treats its platforms as products, not services
• Opportunity to shape internal developer tooling and infrastructure
• High autonomy with strong engineering leadership support

If you’re a senior‑level Platform Engineer with deep Kafka experience and a passion for improving developer experience, we’d love to hear from you.

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