Kafka Reliability Engineer
Job Description
In this role you will be part of Wolts Platform department (Core Group) ensuring Reliability best practices for the datastores used across Wolt. The Database Reliability Team is responsible for maintaining smooth datastore operations for 45M registered users and 170 000 active venues. Our primary focus is on MongoDB PostgreSQL and Kafka along with other storage technologies.
As part of the Database Reliability Team you will be responsible for:
Defining and implementing guardrails to ensure best practices are followed across Wolts engineering organization
Supporting teams in optimizing performance and resolving the most complex datastoresrelated issues
Acting as an evangelist for datastores optimization and best practices within the organization
Proactively analyzing the largest datastores assisting teams with capacity planning and proposing improvements for performance and availability
Handling keep the lights on tasks and automating repetitive processes to minimize operational toil
Ensuring security best practices working in collaboration with Security and Compliance teams
Driving the adoption of monitoring tools dashboards and alerts to improve observability and incident response
While team members may specialize in one of technologies (e.g. some focusing on RDS others on Kafka) we encourage learning and support engineers in expanding their expertise across different data storage domains.
Our Ways Of Working
The Database Reliability Team follows an Agile workflow tailored to our needs:
Quarterly planning: We set priorities together aligning with company OKRs and our vision for reliability and essential maintenance tasks
Minimal meetings: To keep engineers focused we have biweekly planning & retrospectives twiceweekly standups and adhoc project discussions as needed
Qualifications :
Youll be a great fit for this role if you have the following skills and experience:
Handson experience with Kafka and Kafka Connect
Understanding of Kafka performance tuning metrics producer and consumer settings
Knowledge of SRE best practices
Experience working with one of the Cloud providers: AWS / Azure / GCP
Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to write clear documentation for other engineers
Experience with modern software development tools and methodologies including IaC monitoring and observability tools
Experience collaborating with SaaS vendors is a plus
Knowledge of one of the JVM languages Java / Kotlin / Scala would be a plus
You dont need to tick every box but if you see yourself in many of these points wed love to hear from you!
Additional Information :
At Wolt were committed to building an environment where engineers can make an impact while enjoying meaningful challenges. As a member of the Databases Reliability Team youll enjoy:
Working on solutions that support millions of users
Solving complex problems in performance relailbilty and automation
A collaborative and inclusive culture that supports your professional and personal wellbeing
This open role can be based in all of our tech hubs in Helsinki or Berlin. This can vary depending on the exact team and their main location. You can choose whether you want to work from home from the office or hybrid.
The position will be filled as soon as we find the right person so make sure to apply as soon as you realize you really really want to join us!
The compensation will be a negotiable combination of monthly pay and DoorDash RSUs. The latter makes it exceptionally easy to be excited about our company growing and doing well as youll own a piece of the pie.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
