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.

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

• Diagnose intricate issues impacting data flow, performance, or stability.

• Lead investigations into root causes.

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

• Engage in on-call rotations utilizing a geographically distributed follow-the-sun model.

• Promote automation and self-service capabilities for deploying, upgrading, and scaling streaming infrastructure.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong foundation in SRE or infrastructure engineering.

• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code, particularly with Terraform.

• Familiarity with configuration management tools such as Puppet, Ansible, or similar.

• Experience with cloud platforms; AWS is preferred.

• Background in Linux operations.

• Hands-on experience with Kafka or similar technologies in a production environment at scale.

• Knowledge in cluster upgrades, migrations, and capacity planning.

• Programming skills in Python, Java, or a similar language.

• Excellent debugging and systems-thinking abilities across distributed systems.

• Experience with Apache Flink or other stream processing frameworks is a plus.

• Understanding of Kafka Client APIs, including Producer, Consumer, and Streams is advantageous.

• Experience in developing internal self-service tools or developer platforms is a bonus.

• Background in incident response and management is desirable.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work available throughout Canada.

• Follow-the-sun on-call model; ensuring no one is on-call 24/7.

• Support from managers, mentors, and teams.

• Comprehensive benefits package (details available in the posting).

• Reasonable accommodations provided for individuals with disabilities during the job application process.