Kafka Reliability Engineer

Be | Shaping the Future Poland

Warszawa

Remote

PLN 240,000 - 360,000

Full time

47 hours ago

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Job summary

Be | Shaping the Future Poland is seeking a Senior SRE / Platform Engineer with Kafka to support a production readiness initiative for a critical booking platform. You will improve reliability, observability, resilience, and operational excellence across distributed systems and event-driven architectures.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Kafka-based systems, observability tooling, cloud-native deployments, and SRE practices.

Qualifications

Strong background as an SRE, Platform/DevOps engineer or reliability engineer.
Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka in production environments.
Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability platforms.
Knowledge of distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
Understanding of incident management and operational excellence practices.
Experience with MongoDB replication and backup concepts.
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

Define and implement monitoring strategies based on Golden Signals.
Design and maintain dashboards, metrics, alerts, and reporting.
Improve centralized logging and distributed tracing capabilities.
Develop alerting rules, thresholds, and runbooks.
Support on-call processes and incident response activities.
Design and optimize Kafka topics, partitioning, and consumer groups.
Implement retry mechanisms, DLQ, and idempotent processing.
Define schema governance and messaging standards.
Monitor Kafka performance, lag, and throughput.
Improve reliability of asynchronous workflows and backpressure handling.
Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
Participate in incident management and post-mortem activities.
Drive reliability-by-design across services and platforms.
Identify and implement improvements reducing operational overhead.
Support CI/CD pipelines and release automation.
Work with Canary/Blue-Green/rollback strategies.
Collaborate on load testing and production readiness assessments.
Work with Kubernetes and container orchestration platforms.

Skills

SRE/Platform Engineer

Kafka in prod

Observability tooling

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Incident management

Tools

MongoDB

Docker

Job description

Be | Shaping the Future Poland has a proven position of being a reliable partner for financial services organisations to analyse complex requirements, find solutions and implement them in their entirety, regardless of their complexity. Since the foundation of Be Poland in 2013, we have been continually expanding and customising our spectrum of services. Today, we are privileged to have in our team the best individuals in each sector we operate within the financial services industry.

Role: Senior SRE / Platform Engineer with Kafka

Location: fully remote from Poland

Contract Type: B2B

We are looking for experienced Senior SRE / Platform Engineers with Kafka to support a production readiness initiative for a critical booking processing platform. The assignment focuses on improving reliability, observability, resilience, and operational excellence across distributed systems and event-driven architectures. The ideal candidate combines strong hands-on experience with Kafka-based systems, observability tooling, cloud-native deployments, and Site Reliability Engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

Observability & Monitoring

Define and implement monitoring strategies based on Golden Signals
Design and maintain dashboards, metrics, alerts, and reporting
Improve centralized logging and distributed tracing capabilities
Develop alerting rules, thresholds, and operational runbooks
Support on-call processes and incident response activities

Kafka Reliability & Messaging

Design and optimize Kafka topics, partitioning strategies, and consumer groups
Implement retry mechanisms, dead-letter queues (DLQ), and idempotent processing
Define schema governance and messaging standards
Monitor Kafka performance, consumer lag, and throughput
Improve reliability of asynchronous workflows, including backpressure handling and failure recovery

Reliability Engineering & SRE Practices

Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets
Participate in incident management and post-mortem activities
Drive reliability-by-design principles across services and platforms
Identify and implement improvements that reduce operational overhead

Release & Deployment

Support CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Implement quality gates and release management processes
Work with Canary, Blue-Green, and rollback strategies
Support feature flag frameworks and version management
Collaborate on load testing and production readiness assessments
Work with container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes

Data Protection & Disaster Recovery

Define backup and restore strategies
Support disaster recovery planning and testing
Contribute to RPO/RTO definitions and operational procedures
Participate in DR exercises and resilience testing

Required Skills & Experience

Strong experience as an SRE, Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Reliability Engineer
Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka in production environments
Experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability platforms
Knowledge of distributed systems and event-driven architectures
Experience with Kubernetes and containerized environments
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Understanding of incident management and operational excellence practices
Experience with MongoDB, including replication and backup concepts
Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

Nice to Have