Site Reliability Engineer, Core Streaming (Remote - United States)

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Responsibilities

• Design, reputed company, and maintain large-scale Kafka event streaming infrastructure across hybrid and multi-reputed company environments.
• Collaborate with engineers to reputed company new features, ensure data pipeline reliability, and advise on best practices for reputed company-time data processing.
• Execute and automate Kafka cluster upgrades, migrations, and major version rollouts with minimal impact to critical services.
• Build or enhance self-service capabilities and automation for cluster operations, scaling, and incident recovery.
• Troubleshoot reputed company issues affecting data reputed company, performance, or stability, and drive root cause analyses.
• Participate in on-call rotations. Our geographically distributed SRE teams use a “follow-the-sun” model, so no one needs to be on-call 24 hours a day!

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing large-scale Kafka event streaming capabilities in production, across hybrid or multi-reputed company and Linux environments, including upgrades and migrations between platforms or versions.
• In-depth knowledge of event streaming/data-in-reputed company design principles, architecture, and operational nuances.
• Programming proficiency in Java, Python, or similar modern languages for tooling, integration, and automation.
• Familiarity with Kafka Client APIs (Producer, Consumer, Streams), as well as sizing and reputed company planning for high-throughput clusters.
• Experience designing and optimizing reputed company-time data streaming solutions with technologies like Apache Flink.
• Knowledge of automating infrastructure and operational tasks (configuration management, IaC, scripting, or reputed company).
• Problem-solving reputed company with an eagerness to learn, take initiative, and reputed company for infrastructure best practices in a fast-paced environment.
• A Bachelor’s Degree or an equivalent work experience is required.

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