Senior Kafka Platform Engineer – Hybrid (Kraków)

GFT Technologies SE; Kraków; Hybrid; PLN 186,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

GFT Poland is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to manage Kafka clusters in a Kubernetes environment. You will ensure platform stability, scalability, performance, and observability, while driving automation and continuous improvement of operational processes.

The role covers deep Kafka expertise, including brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry, plus end-to-end platform administration and proactive incident handling.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes.
• Experience in end-to-end Kafka platform administration and operations.
• Experience with Kafka Topics and Role-bindings.
• Experience configuring and maintaining Kafka connectors.
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana and Splunk.
• Experience with scripting and automation of operational activities.
• Experience with Kafka performance analysis, benchmarking and tuning.
• Openness to work hybrid from our client's office (Kraków) 6 days a month.

Responsibilities

• Provide deep technical expertise across the Kafka ecosystem, including brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
• Deploy and operate Kafka components on Kubernetes, including scaling, upgrades, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Administer and operate the Kafka platform end-to-end.
• Provision and manage Kafka Topics and Role-bindings.
• Configure, deploy and maintain Kafka connectors, including MQ, Splunk, MongoDB and GCP Pub/Sub.
• Manage Kafka Connect components, including workers, tasks, converters and SMTs.
• Implement monitoring and alerting to ensure platform observability and resilience.
• Automate operational and maintenance activities using scripting and automation tools.
• Perform benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning to ensure scalable and efficient data streaming.
• Lead root cause analysis for production incidents.
• Document incident findings and implement preventative improvements to increase platform reliability.

Skills

Kafka

Kubernetes

Confluent Kafka

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

ZooKeeper/KRaft

Prometheus

Grafana

Splunk

Scripting

Tools

Kafka Connect

ZooKeeper

KRaft

GCP Pub/Sub

GitHub

Jenkins

JIRA

Confluence

Job description

GFT Poland is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to manage Kafka clusters in a Kubernetes environment. You will ensure platform stability, scalability, performance, and observability, while driving automation and continuous improvement of operational processes.

The role covers deep Kafka expertise, including brokers, ZooKeeper/KRaft, Kafka Connect and Schema Registry, plus end-to-end platform administration and proactive incident handling.