Senior Backend Engineer (Kafka Platform)

TL;DR

Senior Backend Engineer (Kafka Platform): Develop, operate, and maintain hirify.global's shared Kafka clusters with an accent on designing and implementing core data streaming systems. Focus on architectural decisions, technical requirements, and cross-team initiatives.

Location: Stockholm, Milan

Salary: kr 752,814 SEK - kr 843,151 SEK

Company

hirify.global is a company.

What you will do

• Develop, operate, and maintain hirify.global's shared Kafka clusters.
• Lead the design and implementation of core data streaming systems using Kafka, AWS, Iceberg, ECS, and S3.
• Drive architectural decisions with a clear view of hirify.global's data landscape, downstream consumers, and cross-team dependencies.
• Derive technical requirements from the broader organization and deliver projects and integrations with minimal oversight.
• Lead technical work in cross-team initiatives.

Requirements

• Experienced building and running streaming platforms on AWS, including EC2 clusters and S3.
• Hands-on with Python, distributed systems, and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform and Ansible.
• Familiar with SSO, IAM, and AWS account setups for data platforms — able to balance security with ease of use for developers.
• Comfortable operating systems in production and improving them through monitoring, incident learnings, and iteration.
• Focused on building solutions that last and scale, not just solving the immediate problem.

Culture & Benefits

• To be discussed.