Remote Senior Messaging Platform Engineer

brk tech, A Berkshire Hathaway Group Company; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

BRK Tech, a Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company, is hiring remote (US only) Principal Messaging Platform Engineers for the Infra and Ops org. You will build a greenfield, open‑source enterprise messaging platform that is mission‑critical to energy generation and grid operations.

You will design, scale, and operate the messaging bus, support Kafka across multiple data centers, and enable systems that have never communicated to work together reliably.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and operating messaging platforms at scale.
• Strong background in cloud, SRE or DevOps with enterprise systems.
• Expertise in distributed systems, APIs and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate an enterprise messaging bus for real‑time and batch integrations.
• Design and scale Kafka/RabbitMQ across multi‑DCs and manage topics/queues.
• Enable integrations via messaging, APIs, service mesh and event patterns.
• Drive messaging modernization across data centers and ensure reliability.

Skills

Cloud engineering

SRE/DevOps

Messaging platforms

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Event-driven design

Kubernetes

APIs & distributed systems

Production ownership

Tools

Kafka

RabbitMQ

Job description

BRK Tech, a Berkshire Hathaway portfolio company, is hiring remote (US only) Principal Messaging Platform Engineers for the Infra and Ops org. You will build a greenfield, open‑source enterprise messaging platform that is mission‑critical to energy generation and grid operations.

You will design, scale, and operate the messaging bus, support Kafka across multiple data centers, and enable systems that have never communicated to work together reliably.