Senior Kafka Engineer

Mindbox is a tech-driven company connecting top IT talents with technology projects for leading enterprises across Europe. The role involves managing Kafka clusters running in a Kubernetes environment.

• Strong understanding of Kafka architecture and experience with cluster maintenance and security.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Kafka.
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation-first principles.
• Experience with DevOps tools: GitHub, JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins.
• Knowledge of automation tools: Ansible, Puppet, or similar.
• Experience with observability tools: DataDog, NewRelic, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.

• Provide expertise in Kafka brokers, zookeepers, Kafka Connect, schema registry, KSQL, Rest Proxy, and Kafka Control Center.
• Manage and optimize Kafka Connect using schema registry in high-volume environments.
• Administer and operate the Kafka platform, including provisioning, Kerberos and SSL configurations, and access control.
• Work with various Kafka connectors (MQ, ElasticSearch, JDBC, File Stream, JMS) and custom connectors using Kafka APIs.
• Create topics, set up redundancy clusters, deploy monitoring tools, and configure alerts for producers, consumers, and consumer groups.
• Conduct root cause analysis of production incidents and implement proactive measures to enhance system reliability.
• Automate routine tasks using scripts or automation tools.
• Perform benchmarking, performance analysis, and tuning.

LI-Hybrid - 6 days per month from the Kraków office.