Senior Kafka/RabbitMQ Platform Engineer

Bonapolia; Polska; Remote; PLN 306,000 - 481,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

B2B contract

Job summary

Bonapolia is seeking an experienced engineer who knows distributed systems from production incidents, cluster tuning under load, and running practical runbooks. English: upper-intermediate+. Location: Portugal, Poland, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Germany, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, EU.

This is a long-term project with an expected duration of 3 years. Required: 3+ years in administration of distributed messaging (RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka) and Spark workloads; governance, security, and

Qualifications

• 3+ years managing distributed messaging systems (RabbitMQ, Kafka).
• 2+ years in Kafka/RabbitMQ cluster tuning, data pipelines, and monitoring.
• 1+ year using Docker/Kubernetes in production environments.

Skills

Distributed systems

Incident response

Runbooks

DataOps

Tools

RabbitMQ

Kafka

Spark

Docker

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Python/Bash

Debezium

NiFi

Job description

Who We're Looking For

An experienced engineer who knows distributed systems not just from documentation - but from production incidents, cluster tuning under load, and writing runbooks that people actually use.

English: upper-intermediate+

Location: Portugal, Poland, Romania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Germany, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, EU

This is a long-term project with an expected duration of 3 years.

At least 3 years of proven experience in:

• Administration and operation of distributed messaging platforms, including RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka;
• Operational management of Apache Spark workloads, including deployments, scalability, and monitoring;
• Troubleshooting and support for distributed infrastructures and critical data environments;
• Implementation of governance, security, and continuous monitoring practices for messaging and data platforms;
• Production of technical documentation, architecture, and operational procedures.

Proven experience of at least 2 years in:

• AMQP, topics, queues, partitions, offsets, delivery guarantees, and message ordering;
• Configuration and tuning of Kafka clusters and RabbitMQ environments in production;
• DataOps practices and automation (Ansible, Terraform, Python/Bash scripts);
• Advanced integration between messaging platforms and data pipelines

Proven experience of at least 1 (one) year in:

• Operation and administration of ingestion systems such as Debezium or Apache NiFi;
• Docker and Kubernetes for managing containerized environments
• Certification in messaging administration.

What We Offer

• Model: B2B contract with Bonapolia - one contract, one monthly invoice
• Rate: negotiated per candidate seniority and client budget
• Payment: monthly invoice, paid on the same schedule the client pays us (usually 30 days)
• Contract written under your country's law
• We handle the client-side paperwork: MSA, NDA, invoicing

About Bonapolia

Bonapolia is a family-owned IT staff augmentation team based in Lisbon. We build engineering teams for product companies and IT consultancies across Europe and the US.

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