Senior Data Platform Engineer — Kafka & PostgreSQL

📋 Description

• Run PostgreSQL and Kafka on Kubernetes: Deploy, upgrade, scale, and operate CloudNativePG and
• GitOps & Infrastructure as Code: Manage everything declaratively with Argo CD (or Flux), Helm
• High Availability & Disaster Recovery: Design and operate high availability within each region
• Self-Service Platform: Give product teams self-service provisioning of databases, users, topics
• Observability & Operations: Build monitoring and alerting (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry)
• Security & Multi-Tenancy: Implement TLS/mTLS, secrets management (Vault/OpenBao), network

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including 3+ years running
• Strong hands-on Kubernetes operations — StatefulSets, persistent volumes and storage classes, pod
• Production experience running PostgreSQL and/or Kafka through Kubernetes operators (CloudNativePG
• Day-to-day use of Argo CD or Flux, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or
• Practical PostgreSQL administration — replication and failover, backup and point-in-time recovery
• Running Kafka in production — brokers, topics and partitions, replication, consumer groups

🎁 Benefits

• Work with an established Silicon Valley leader in the cloud infrastructure industry
• Work with exceptionally passionate, talented and engaging colleagues, helping Fortune 500 and
• Be a part of cutting-edge, open-source innovation
• Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration
• Professional development and training
• Attend conferences and working groups