Gojek - Software Engineer - Event Platform

Goto Group; Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; On-site; IDR 200.000.000 - 300.000.000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in Jakarta is seeking a Software Engineer to enhance its Events Platform. You will maintain Apache Kafka infrastructure and automate operational tasks to improve developer experience. Ideal candidates have 2+ years of experience in programming and familiarity with distributed systems. Join a collaborative team leveraging cutting-edge technology in cloud computing and real-time systems.

Qualifications

• At least 2+ years of relevant experience in building applications from scratch.
• Proficiency in an object-oriented or functional programming language.
• Basic knowledge of Apache Kafka and its ecosystem.
• Hands-on with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes for managing containerized workloads.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and operate Apache Kafka infrastructure in a high-scale environment.
• Manage tools and libraries for Kafka producers and consumers.
• Automate operational tasks to reduce toil.
• Enhance system reliability through monitoring and failover.
• Implement self-service capabilities for teams integrating with Kafka.
• Collaborate with internal teams for event-driven architecture design.

Skills

Java

Golang

Python

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Terraform

Apache Kafka

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

About The Role

As a Software Engineer in the Events Platform team at Gojek, you'll play a key role in building and maintaining a scalable and reliable platform that enables real‑time messaging and event‑driven architecture across our products. You'll work on developing and improving our managed Kafka infrastructure to support high‑throughput, low‑latency streaming for diverse applications across Gojek's ecosystem. Your focus will be on solving complex distributed system challenges, enhancing developer experience, and ensuring our platform remains cost‑effective, resilient, and easy to use. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in backend infrastructure, enjoy building tools for other developers, and are passionate about working at scale.

What You Will Do

• Maintain and operate Apache Kafka infrastructure in a high‑scale, multi‑cloud environment, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance.
• Manage and evolve tools, libraries, and frameworks that support Kafka producers and consumers, improving developer experience and promoting consistency across teams.
• Automate operational tasks such as provisioning, scaling, alerting, and recovery to reduce toil and minimize operational overhead.
• Enhance system reliability through robust monitoring, failover mechanisms, self‑healing workflows, and capacity planning.
• Implement self‑service capabilities and platform abstractions to reduce time‑to‑market for teams integrating with Kafka.
• Collaborate with internal teams to support event‑driven architecture design and troubleshoot platform‑related issues.
• Contribute to infrastructure as code using Terraform and manage Kubernetes‑based deployments for platform components.

What You Will Need

• At least 2+ years of relevant experience in building applications from scratch, with proficiency in an object‑oriented or functional programming language (e.g., Java, Golang, Clojure, Python, Ruby).
• Basic knowledge of Apache Kafka and its ecosystem (e.g., Kafka Connect, Schema Registry).
• Good understanding of message brokers like RabbitMQ (RMQ).
• Hands‑on with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and automation.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s) for deploying and managing containerized workloads.
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts and multi‑cloud architectures.
• Comfortable with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and CI/CD pipelines.

About The Team

We are the heart of Gojek, responsible for the pillars of technology, science, and strategy across engineering, powering over 500+ microservices. We leverage cutting‑edge technology in cloud computing, managing real‑time high‑throughput systems with a wide range of programming stacks. At the productivity team, we solve for the happiness of our customers—Gojek Product Engineers—by designing abstractions and automations.