Kafka Platform / Site Reliability Engineer

Requirements — Must Have

• Hands-on experience operating Apache Kafka in production, including Schema Registry and Kafka Connect

• Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes, including writing/managing CRDs and Operators

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform; ideally Terragrunt and Ansible)

• Familiarity with GitOps-style workflows (declarative infra/Kafka resource management via code + K8s CRDs)

• Experience troubleshooting distributed streaming systems in a Kubernetes-native environment

• Strong English communication skills, international team

Nice to Have

• Go knowledge (Operators/internal tooling written in Go)

• Kafka on Aiven experience

• German language

Tasks

• Operate and maintain production Kafka clusters and surrounding ecosystem (Schema Registry, Kafka Connect)

• Develop and manage Kubernetes CRDs and Operators for Kafka resource lifecycle management

• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform/Terragrunt/Ansible) for the streaming platform

• Implement and maintain GitOps workflows for declarative infra and Kafka resource management

• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents in distributed streaming systems running on Kubernetes

• Collaborate with an international engineering team