Senior Software Engineer

About the Team

Our PubSub team, based in Amsterdam, NL, is expanding to provide stable, reliable, and highly available solutions to hundreds of developers and the services they deploy. We focus on asynchronous service-to-service communication, supporting the adoption of Kubernetes and best practices on microservices development.

About the Role

We are a thriving and rapidly growing engineering organization that has developed a business-critical tool used by companies worldwide. To meet the increasing demand for feature releases, we are expanding our team and seeking a Senior Engineer with a focus on tooling for async communication with Kafka. In this role, you will be responsible for designing and delivering scalable and reliable infrastructure solutions using these technologies. Join us at this exciting time and contribute your skills, experience, and vision to revolutionize collaboration on a global scale.

What you’ll do

• Continuously improve the operation of our Kafka clusters
• Develop high-quality software components to be used by other teams within the organization
• Promote best practices and help teams adopt async communication patterns
• Build and lead our CI/CD pipelines (GitLab/GitHub) and automate Infrastructure-as-Code deployments
• Implement automation and observability across infrastructure resources
• Propose and implement improvements to our infrastructure stack
• Participate in operational rotations to resolve incidents in our production environment
• Develop and implement governance policies for our cloud infrastructure

What you’ll need

• 8+ years experience
• Experience building services, or tooling, that other developers used to build or run their workloads
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes and networking
• Experience maintaining Kafka clusters is a plus
• Experience building high load and large scale distributed systems is a plus
• Familiar with IaC / GitOps and related CI/CD toolset
• Able to write code in a server-side programming language using an industry-adopted framework
• Comfortable supporting other engineers in the organisation
• Love reading and writing documentation

What's in it for you

• Competitive equity package
• Medical insurance coverage
• Lunch, snacks and drinks provided in the office
• Wellbeing benefit and WFH equipment allowance
• Annual learning and development allowance to grow your skills and career
• Travel allowance for your commute
• Opportunity to work for a globally diverse team
• Inspiring workplace in the heart of Amsterdam