Kafka Solutions Architect

SoftwareMill is a company recognized as Poland’s Best Workplace in the 50–99 people category by Great Place to Work. It operates 100% remotely with a remote-first mindset and focuses on professional development, learning culture, and a DevOps-friendly environment. The company works on technological partnerships and consulting, involving projects with technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, and Terraform.

• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka administration and its ecosystem
• Ability to perform Kafka consulting and lead Kafka trainings
• Experience with technical pre-sales activities
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Very good knowledge of Ansible
• Experience with cloud deployment (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• Good knowledge of English (spoken and written)
• Polish language proficiency

Nice to have:

• Confluent Certified Administrator or Developer for Apache Kafka
• Hands-on experience with Confluent Platform
• Knowledge of IaC tools like Terraform, Pulumi, Amazon CDK
• Experience with Grafana
• Experience with MLOps and/or DevSecOps
• Experience with JVM applications
• Management of multi-node clusters
• Experience using AI in software development and deployment
• Engagement in IT community activities (blogging, speaking, open-source involvement)
• Having a pet project

• Perform Apache Kafka administration and performance tuning
• Lead Kafka consulting and trainings
• Conduct technical pre-sales activities and communicate directly with business stakeholders
• Represent SoftwareMill at global events such as London Current and Kafka Summit
• Conduct demos and workshops with customers both online and on-site
• Deliver projects autonomously