Senior Cloud Engineer (K8s & Kafka)

TL;DR

Senior Cloud Engineer (K8s & Kafka): Architecting the backbone of container orchestration and real-time data streaming with an accent on hardening Kubernetes clusters and Kafka infrastructure. Focus on optimizing low latency, high throughput, and rock-solid resilience.

Location: Hybrid (3 days per week in the office) in Ljubljana

Company

hirify.global is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens.

What you will do

• Architect the backbone of container orchestration and real-time data streaming.
• Harden Kubernetes clusters and Kafka infrastructure.
• Abstract away the complexity of the underlying infrastructure.
• Provide a seamless “paved road” for developers to deploy and scale their applications.
• Fine-tune resource limits and optimize message durability.
• Share your expertise with the wider engineering community.

Requirements

• BS in Software Engineering (or extensive experience equivalent to).
• Good programming abilities.
• Extensive experience building and running workloads in public clouds (AWS, Azure, or both).
• Strong working knowledge of and experience in IaC technologies, like Terraform.
• Strong commitment to quality designs, automation, and documentation.
• Effective communicator.

Nice to have

• Past experience in building, industrializing, and running large highly available, high scale, and high traffic infrastructure in multiple regions.
• Past experience in advertising technology or e-commerce.

Culture & Benefits

• Continuous investment in employees’ skills through in-house and external training and internal mobility.
• 22 days off per year.
• Hybrid work (3 days per week in the office).
• Premium work equipment and an enjoyable work environment with team building events and summits.