Remote Senior Kafka Architect

Spribe OÜ; Województwo mazowieckie; Remote; PLN 201,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

SPRIBE is seeking a skilled Kafka Administrator in Poland to own the design, deployment, operation and upgrades of our Kafka platform (self-managed and MSK), including Kafka Connect and Schema Registry. You will define topics/partitions/retention with development teams and occasionally support PostgreSQL operations.

You will investigate performance and reliability issues, ensuring high availability through monitoring, DR tests, and robust failover.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Kafka ecosystem, including setup, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Database Administration and Programming experience with PostgreSQL.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, deployment, operation and upgrades of our Kafka platform (self-managed and MSK), including Kafka Connect and Schema Registry, Glue, Flink.
• Define topic, partitioning, retention and schema governance standards together with development teams.
• Occasionally support PostgreSQL operations alongside the team: routine maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Investigate and resolve performance, throughput and reliability issues across Kafka and PostgreSQL.
• Ensure high availability through SLOs, monitoring, alerting (including consumer lag) and regular DR/failover testing.
• Collaborate with development teams to integrate Kafka into their applications.
• Expertise in investigation and resolution of performance related issues.
• Support development teams integrating with Kafka (producers, consumers, Kafka Streams, Flink).

Skills

Kafka ecosystem

PostgreSQL

Monitoring & troubleshooting

Tools

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

ksqldb

Flink

MSK

Glue

Job description

SPRIBE is seeking a skilled Kafka Administrator in Poland to own the design, deployment, operation and upgrades of our Kafka platform (self-managed and MSK), including Kafka Connect and Schema Registry. You will define topics/partitions/retention with development teams and occasionally support PostgreSQL operations.

You will investigate performance and reliability issues, ensuring high availability through monitoring, DR tests, and robust failover.