Platypus helps business and data teams create workflows to automate business processes, in minutes and with no help from the engineering teams.
We are the industry's only low-code, real-time, self-hosted, business rules management system.
As a Backend Kafka Engineer at Platypus, you will immediately play an integral role in building out, scaling, and optimizing our platform. You will join our fast-growing team as the first Backend Kafka engineer that can build and shape the future direction of our product in delivering outstanding event-driven streaming applications.
What you’ll do
As a Backend Kafka Engineer, your responsibilities will include:
- Design, build, test, scale, support, and frequently refine new product features and services.
- Quickly develop, test, and iterate new feature ideas. You’ll own what you build through the entire product lifecycle.
- Work with external vendor technology APIs, and libraries for integration.
- Standardize and evolve our event-driven Business Rules Management Platform.
- Work closely with our CTO to design and improve our event-driven architecture.
About you
Must have
- A scrappy entrepreneurial attitude, with a good understanding of the tradeoffs between quality, performance, and time to ship.
- Experience with Kafka and Kafka Streams Java APIs.
- Solid foundation in Kafka architectures - Connect, Schema Registries, Processors, Topics, Retention Spaces,...
- Experience with either Spring or Quarkus frameworks.
- Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Experience with AWS, GCP, or MS Azure.
- Experience with RDBMS (PostgreSQL, MySQL,...) and SQL language.
- Working knowledge of version control systems such as GIT.
- Passion for new Challenges, Quality and Engineering, with a can-do attitude.
Nice to have:
- Prior experience working at an early-stage startup.
- Experience managing and querying Kafka resources as well as developing DevOps processes for Kafka.
- Working knowledge of open source configuration of monitoring systems such as Nagios, Sensu or Prometheus.
- Working knowledge of deploying into production Kafka systems using Kubernetes for high events per second throughput.
- Working knowledge in JavaScript and Python.
Our team:
We are a young remote startup based in San Francisco, California, the company is backed by Y Combinator, K Fund, TMV, and Bigsur ventures. Our fast-growing team values rationality and compassion overall. We also value clear communication, efficient execution, creativity, and innovation. Our team members wear many hats and draw on experience from companies such as Intel, Amazon, and Bain & Company.
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