Kafka Expert (Staff/Principal)

Our cooperation offer:

• Remuneration ranging from 165 to 210 PLN net per hour for a start

• 100% remote company with remote-first mindset

• Flexible cooperation from any location and without strict schedule

• Professional development and freedom in choosing toolset and tech stack

• Learning-culture expressed by SoftwareMill Academy and technical reading clubs

• Access to many AI tools (Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, etc.)

• Leadership and soft-skills in-house trainings

• English courses

• Small to medium teams with as little procedures as possible

• Best tools you need to make our cooperation effective and pleasurable: monitor(s), computer of your choice

• DevOps-friendly environment with passionate and skilled people who believe in software craftsmanship - you will have a chance to meet some of them during the selection process

• Interesting projects with technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, clustering and scaling both horizontally and vertically

What we expect:

• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka administration, performance tuning, and its ecosystem

• Ability to perform Kafka consulting and lead Kafka trainings

• Experience with technical pre-sales activities and direct communication with business stakeholders

• Autonomy in project delivery

• Readiness to represent SoftwareMill at global events (London Current, Kafka Summit, etc.)

• Readiness to conduct demos and workshops with customers, both online and on-site

• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker

• Very good knowledge about Ansible

• Experience with deployment to a cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)

• Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the industry trends

• Good knowledge of English is a must (both spoken and written), we cooperate with clients from all over the world (USA, Australia, Switzerland, etc.)

• Polish language is required, as internally we are a Polish speaking company

Nice to have:

• Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK) and/or Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK)

• Hands-on experience with Confluent Platform

• Very good knowledge about various IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, Amazon CDK)

• Experience with Grafana

• Experience with MLOps and/or DevSecOps

• Experience with JVM applications

• Management of multi-node clusters

• Experience in using AI in software development and deployment cycle

• Engagement in the IT community: personal blog, speaking at meetups/conferences, involvement in the open-source projects

• Having a pet-project