Senior Cloud Platform Engineer — Kafka & Kubernetes

Mozn; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Top-tier health insurance

Flexible PTO

Autonomy to own impact

Dynamic AI-focused environment

Job summary

Mozn in the United States is seeking a highly skilled Distributed Systems Engineer III to join our Cloud Platform Engineering team. You will build and operate reliable cloud platforms for distributed workloads, using Kubernetes, Kafka, and relational databases to support data-intensive tasks.

You will design scalable, observable systems, implement GitOps workflows, and collaborate across teams to improve reliability, performance, and resilience in a fast-growing AI-enabled enterprise.

Qualifications

• 4–7 years of experience in Platform Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, Distributed Systems, SRE, Backend Engineering, Data Infrastructure, or a related field.
• Strong production experience with Apache Kafka — mandatory.
• Hands-on production experience with Kubernetes — mandatory.
• Strong experience with at least one of MySQL or PostgreSQL — mandatory.
• Solid understanding of distributed-systems fundamentals including replication, partitioning, consistency, availability, fault tolerance, scalability, and failure recovery.
• Experience with ArgoCD/GitOps and infrastructure-as-code such as Terraform.
• Experience operating workloads on a public cloud such as GCP, OCI, AWS, or Azure.
• Strong production troubleshooting and incident-resolution skills.
• Experience with automation or scripting using Python, Bash, Go, Java, or similar languages.
• Understanding of high-availability, disaster-recovery, and multi-tenant architecture fundamentals.
• Experience with observability and operational tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch/ELK, LGTM, or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure and networking fundamentals in cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• Build, operate, and continuously improve production cloud-native platforms running distributed workloads.
• Work hands-on with Kubernetes, including upgrades, node pools, workload lifecycle, troubleshooting, and platform operations.
• Deploy and manage workloads using ArgoCD, Helm, GitOps, Terraform, and automation.
• Design and operate systems with a focus on scalability, availability, resilience, performance, and operational simplicity.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, networking, storage, applications, and distributed services.

Skills

Kafka

Kubernetes

MySQL

PostgreSQL

Distributed systems

GitOps

Terraform

Python

Go

Bash

Tools

ArgoCD

Terraform

Job description

Mozn in the United States is seeking a highly skilled Distributed Systems Engineer III to join our Cloud Platform Engineering team. You will build and operate reliable cloud platforms for distributed workloads, using Kubernetes, Kafka, and relational databases to support data-intensive tasks.

You will design scalable, observable systems, implement GitOps workflows, and collaborate across teams to improve reliability, performance, and resilience in a fast-growing AI-enabled enterprise.