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Senior Platform Engineer, Event Streaming Platform (Kafka)

Wolt - English · Berlin, Germany; Helsinki, Finland

Posted about 3 months ago

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This role has been open
80 days
Wolt - English's roles stay open a median of 81 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Wolt - English's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Wolt - English
high
243 stale, 33 reposted of 248 open
Hiring momentum
410 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-23

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About this role

As a Senior Platform Engineer on the Event Streaming team, you will design, build, and operate large-scale event streaming infrastructure, primarily using Kafka. Your role will involve improving the reliability and scalability of these systems, debugging complex distributed issues, and contributing to the long-term architecture of the event streaming platform. You will also participate in on-call rotations and collaborate with various engineering teams across multiple regions.

Our read on this posting2.0out of 5
benefits
1/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

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What you need

  • Strong hands-on experience building or operating distributed systems in production
  • Deep experience with Kafka or similar event streaming systems
  • Strong coding ability in Java, Go, Python or similar
  • Experience operating scalable production infrastructure
  • Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, observability, capacity management and operational excellence
  • Good fundamentals in Linux, networking and JVM-based systems

Nice to have

  • Experience contributing to Kafka or related open source distributed systems
  • Experience with Redpanda, WarpStream, AutoMQ, Pulsar or similar streaming technologies
  • Experience with JVM tuning, broker tuning, partition management or Cruise Control
  • Experience with tiered storage, diskless streaming architectures or multi-region event streaming platforms

Worth weighing

  • The role involves a 24/7 on-call rotation which may require working outside of standard hours
  • The position requires collaboration across multiple teams and regions, including occasional evening hours in the EU
  • The job demands a high level of technical expertise and problem-solving skills in distributed systems

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Listed by Wolt - English on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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