Site Reliability Engineer, Core Streaming

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of the reliability, scalability, and operational health of Kafka clusters in multi-cloud and hybrid settings.

• Develop and sustain automation for cluster operations, upgrades, capacity scaling, and incident recovery processes.

• Collaborate with engineering teams to facilitate new streaming applications, provide guidance on best practices, and guarantee the reliability of data pipelines.

• Diagnose complex issues impacting data flow, performance, or stability, and spearhead root cause analyses.

• Implement Kafka version upgrades and platform migrations with minimal disruption to essential services.

• Engage in on-call rotations.

⛳️ Requirements

• Solid foundation in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) or infrastructure engineering, with experience in infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent), cloud platforms (preferably AWS), and Linux operations.

• Production-level experience with Kafka or comparable technologies at scale, including cluster upgrades, migrations, and capacity planning.

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, or similar for tooling and automation purposes.

• Strong debugging and systems-thinking capabilities, comfortable tracing data flow issues end-to-end across distributed systems.

• Nice to Have: Familiarity with Apache Flink or other stream processing frameworks, experience with Kafka Client APIs (Producer, Consumer, Streams), background in building internal self-service tools or developer platforms, and experience in incident response and management.

🏝️ Benefits

• A variety of factors influence the determination of a compensation range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data and years of experience.

• The actual compensation offered may vary based on factors such as the candidate’s experience and skill set.

• There may be flexibility with the range provided in this posting if a candidate is leveled higher or lower than the listed range.

• This position offers the option to be fully remote across all locations in Canada.