Software Engineer - Kafka Platform - Remote

Overview

The Streaming Platform team owns one of the largest data-in-motion platforms in the world, providing real-time data analytics. Our clusters process 9.5 billion events per minute, serving New Relic’s customer experience by making it easy for development teams to prioritize reliability. We focus on services built to stream customer data, primarily using Kafka, but we are expanding to other solutions in the future.

In Short

• Own, operate, and build our fully automated Kafka platform infrastructure.
• Participate in an on-call rotation and bake stability into everything.
• Design systems using infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Use available innovation time to bring your creative ideas to life.
• Own and improve your team processes.

Requirements

• 3+ years proven experience managing services that use Kafka or other streaming platforms.
• Experience writing software in Java, Go, or similar languages.
• Experience with configuration management like Terraform or Ansible.
• Experience operating software in production Kubernetes environments at scale.
• Background working with AWS products including Managed Streaming Kafka and Elastic Kubernetes Service.

Benefits

• Fostering a diverse, welcoming and inclusive environment.
• Flexible workforce model allowing various workplaces.
• Opportunities for professional and business success.