Senior Software Engineer - Event Streaming as a Service (all genders)
in GERMANY
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1 year ago
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ExperienceEntry level
Job typeFull-time
Job Description
As part of the Event Streaming team you will be improving, extending, and operating Zalando’s core Event Streaming Platform. The platform enables all development teams to communicate at scale between services and builds the bridge to the central data lake. Built on top of Apache Kafka, the Event Streaming Platform provides a fast and efficient solution to many of Zalando’s application developers. You will help to continuously improve the user experience, cost efficiency and reliability of our products.
WHERE YOUR EXPERTISE IS NEEDED
Good software engineering skills and fundamental knowledge of engineering principals across the software development life cycle
Display ownership for our services from problem formulation, inception to solution design, as well as delivery and operations.
Closely collaborate with Product Management (and other roles) to refine the functional requirements and build test cases to be verified during development and feature release.
Suggest and drive solutions that simplify the technical architecture of individual services or pay down technical debt.
Openness to grow less experienced engineers and new joiners.
Live operational excellence, including deployment automation, observability and general resilience of our platform products
Support Zalando developers in effectively using our platform services through documentation, support requests, training, etc.
Investigate issues in software, libraries, and cloud infrastructure.
What We’re Looking For
+5 years of recent industry experience as a systems or software engineer
Production grade knowledge in Java coupled with excellent general software engineering skills, Go and Python is a puls
Experience with Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams, Apache Flink and similar event streaming systems
Experience in designing distributed systems or microservices
Experience in REST API design
Experience building and running large-scale distributed systems
AWS knowledge and/or Kubernetes experience is a plus
PERKS AT WORK
A workplace run on trust, empowerment and feedback; positive, inspiring working atmosphere
Competitive salary, employee share shop, 40% Zalando shopping discount, discounts from external partners, centrally located offices, public transport discounts, municipality services, great IT equipment, flexible working times, additional holidays and volunteering time off, free beverages and fruits, diverse sports and health offerings
Mentoring and personal development opportunities and an international team of experts
Relocation assistance for internationals, PME family service and parent & child rooms
We celebrate and are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.
