Kafka Engineer

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About the Role

As a Kafka Engineer, you’ll be responsible for designing, building, and maintaining Kafka messaging clusters to serve as the foundation for application pub/sub requirements. You’ll collaborate closely with application teams to translate their needs into scalable, maintainable services, while bringing a strong incremental and MVP-based approach to all tasks.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate Kafka clusters to meet application pub/sub demands.
• Collaborate with application teams to translate requirements into deliverable services.
• Optimize performance around messaging platforms within the application.
• Contribute to the build and operation of Kubernetes (K8s) clusters and cloud environments.
• Leverage application observability platforms to improve system reliability and performance.
• Take a data-driven approach to troubleshooting and decision-making for platform operations.
• Other duties as assigned.

About You

Qualifications & Skills

• 4+ years of relevant work experience in cloud platform engineering or related fields.
• Expertise in building and managing Kafka clusters, with proven experience in pub/sub messaging systems.
• Strong programming skills in Python or C++ (alternatively Java or Node.js).
• Solid understanding of cloud platforms, ideally AWS (experience with GCP or Azure also acceptable).
• Experience integrating with application teams to ensure infrastructure serves user needs.
• Knowledge of performance optimization strategies in Kafka or messaging platforms.
• Experience working in Kubernetes (K8s) and containerized environments.
• Familiarity with observability tools and metrics for monitoring.
• A demonstrated MVP-based and incremental approach to development.

Desirable Skills (Nice-to-Have)

• Experience with data science tooling such as Python, Pandas, Snowflake, Spark, or S3.
• Familiarity with running containerized environments at scale.
• A data-driven mindset in addressing operational challenges.

At.Monks, we believe in fostering an environment where a diversity of perspectives can thrive. We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve. We welcome and encourage qualified applicants, from all backgrounds, who are excited to contribute to our mission.  

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About Monks

Monks is the global, purely digital, unitary operating brand of S4Capital plc. With a legacy of innovation and specialized expertise, Monks combines an extraordinary range of global marketing and technology services to accelerate business possibilities and redefine how brands and businesses interact with the world. Its integration of systems and workflows delivers unfettered content production, scaled experiences, enterprise-grade technology and data science fueled by AI—managed by the industry’s best and most diverse digital talent—to help the world’s trailblazing companies outmaneuver and outpace their competition.

Monks was named a Contender in The Forrester Wave™: Global Marketing Services. It has remained a constant presence on Adweek’s Fastest Growing lists (2019-23), ranks among Cannes Lions' Top 10 Creative Companies (2022-23) and is the only partner to have been placed in AdExchanger’s Programmatic Power Players list every year (2020-24). In addition to being named Adweek’s first AI Agency of the Year (2023), Monks has been recognized by Business Intelligence in its 2024 Excellence in Artificial Intelligence Awards program in three categories: the Individual category, Organizational Winner in AI Strategic Planning and AI Product for its service Monks.Flow. Monks has also garnered the title of Webby Production Company of the Year (2021-24), won a record number of FWAs and has earned a spot on Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplaces 2023.

We are an equal-opportunity employer committed to building a respectful and empowering work environment for all people to freely express themselves amongst colleagues who embrace diversity in all respects. Including fresh voices and unique points of view in all aspects of our business not only creates an environment where we can all grow and thrive but also increases our potential to produce work that better represents—and resonates with—the world around us.