Senior Kafka & RabbitMQ Platform Engineer (Onsite)

Compunnel Inc.; Round Rock (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Compunnel Inc. in Round Rock, TX is seeking an experienced Messaging & Streaming Platform Engineer to design, engineer, and optimize enterprise messaging infrastructure. You will manage Kafka and RabbitMQ, perform deployments, and ensure high availability across distributed systems.

The role requires strong Linux administration and hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools, with onsite work five days a week in a collaborative enterprise environment.

Qualifications

• 6–12 years of experience in middleware or enterprise platform engineering.
• Hands-on Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ expertise.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Experience with monitoring/observability tools.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, administer, and support enterprise messaging and streaming platforms.
• Manage Apache Kafka and RabbitMQ infrastructure across distributed environments.
• Perform installations, upgrades, patching, and configuration management.
• Monitor platform health, availability, performance, and reliability.
• Troubleshoot Kafka producers, consumers, bottlenecks, and performance issues.
• Develop disaster recovery, backup, and recovery solutions.
• Implement platform security standards and best practices.
• Collaborate with application development and infrastructure teams.
• Automate operational processes and improve platform efficiency.
• Utilize observability and AI-assisted operational tools to enhance service delivery.

Skills

Middleware experience

Messaging platforms

Distributed systems

Linux administration

Observability

Tools

Apache Kafka

RabbitMQ

Kubernetes

Docker

Grafana

Splunk

Dynatrace

Job description

Compunnel Inc. in Round Rock, TX is seeking an experienced Messaging & Streaming Platform Engineer to design, engineer, and optimize enterprise messaging infrastructure. You will manage Kafka and RabbitMQ, perform deployments, and ensure high availability across distributed systems.

The role requires strong Linux administration and hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools, with onsite work five days a week in a collaborative enterprise environment.