Remote Senior Kafka Reliability Engineer

Be | Shaping the Future Poland; Warszawa; Remote; PLN 240,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Free gym at Q22

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 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.