Senior Cloud Data Platform Engineer: Real-Time Kafka

Commit; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Commit is seeking an accomplished Cloud Infrastructure Architect to own the cloud stack for a high-concurrency gaming platform, delivering low-latency streaming and zero-downtime routing. You will design and deploy scalable environments with Terraform, build real-time data pipelines around Kafka, manage data lakes, and drive cost optimisation and disaster recovery strategies.

Fluent English is required, and the role is based in Warsaw with on-site collaboration across global teams, focusing on

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cloud infrastructure, data engineering or distributed systems architecture.
• Experience building distributed data pipelines with event-driven architectures (Kafka) and CDC.
• Proficiency with Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes and AWS.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy and maintain scalable cloud environments using infrastructure as code (Terraform)
• Build and operate real-time, event-driven data pipelines built for scale, fault tolerance and sub-second latency
• Architect and optimise storage backends and data lake infrastructure for both live transactional routing and analytical workloads
• Implement high-availability networking, API gateways, automated failover and zero-downtime routing strategies
• Integrate data validation, observability and monitoring into the pipeline lifecycle to catch bottlenecks and data drift before they reach production
• Drive long-term cloud scaling, FinOps (cost optimisation), disaster recovery and system benchmarking

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Distributed systems

Real-time data streaming

Event-driven architecture

FinOps / cost optimisation

English proficiency

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

AWS

S3

Job description

Commit is seeking an accomplished Cloud Infrastructure Architect to own the cloud stack for a high-concurrency gaming platform, delivering low-latency streaming and zero-downtime routing. You will design and deploy scalable environments with Terraform, build real-time data pipelines around Kafka, manage data lakes, and drive cost optimisation and disaster recovery strategies.

Fluent English is required, and the role is based in Warsaw with on-site collaboration across global teams, focusing on