Platform Engineer

AVENGA (Agencja Pracy, nr KRAZ: 8448) is hiring for a Platform Engineer role based in Warszawa, Poland.

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native platform engineering concepts.
• Practical experience operating or developing for Kafka, PostgreSQL, YugaByteDB, or other stateful distributed systems.
• Solid understanding of reliability engineering, observability, incident response, and safe production change.
• Experience building automation or self-service tooling to improve developer experience and reduce operational toil.
• Strong collaboration skills and ability to engage positively with users of an internal platform.
• Strong software engineering skills with experience writing clean, maintainable, and well-tested code.

Nice to have:

• Experience building Kubernetes operators or controllers, ideally in Go.
• Familiarity with AWS managed data services such as RDS, Aurora, or related database tooling.
• Exposure to multi-region architecture, disaster recovery, or distributed database patterns.

• Build and operate shared Kafka and database platform capabilities.
• Deliver changes to Kafka, PostgreSQL, YugaByteDB, and other stateful platform components in a controlled, well-tested manner.
• Build self-service platform capabilities through Kubernetes-native interfaces, automation, and reusable tooling.
• Improve developer experience by simplifying provisioning and reducing ticket-driven workflows.
• Design and implement solutions to improve resilience, security, scalability, and operational safety for stateful workloads.
• Investigate incidents, performance issues, and capacity risks, turning findings into durable platform improvements.
• Define and improve observability, alerting, SLOs, dashboards, and runbooks for critical stateful services.
• Work on platform software such as operators, controllers, and supporting services managing shared infrastructure at scale.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams on platform adoption, technical design, and safe use of shared data and messaging systems.