Flink Manager

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🕒 February 27

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Weekday (YC W21)

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2021

☁️ SaaS

🎯 Recruiter

Human Resources • SaaS • Recruitment

Weekday is a modern recruitment platform that combines AI technologies with a vast database of potential candidates, aiming to streamline the hiring process for companies in India. They offer various services, including a proactive outreach approach that helps employers connect with top talent, as well as tools for candidates to easily apply for jobs. Weekday's emphasis on candidate engagement through multiple channels, including email, WhatsApp, and phone calls, sets it apart in the competitive landscape of recruitment agencies.

📋 Description

• As a Flink Manager, you will be responsible for driving real-time streaming initiatives, managing high-performing engineering teams, and architecting scalable data solutions that power mission-critical business applications. • You will collaborate closely with product, analytics, infrastructure, and leadership teams to translate business requirements into resilient streaming architectures. • Lead the design, development, and deployment of real-time data processing pipelines using **Apache Flink**. • Architect scalable, fault-tolerant, and low-latency streaming systems leveraging Flink’s DataStream and Table APIs. • Manage end-to-end lifecycle of Flink applications including development, testing, optimization, monitoring, and production support. • Drive best practices for state management, checkpointing, windowing, event-time processing, and fault tolerance in Flink. • Optimize Flink job performance, resource allocation, and cluster tuning for high-throughput environments. • Oversee integration of Flink with distributed systems such as Kafka, data lakes, warehouses, and microservices. • Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, conducting code reviews and enforcing engineering excellence standards. • Collaborate with DevOps teams to manage Flink deployments on cloud and on-prem environments. • Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms for streaming pipelines to ensure high availability and reliability. • Contribute to roadmap planning for streaming and real-time analytics platforms.

🎯 Requirements

• 8–12 years of overall experience in data engineering, distributed systems, or backend engineering. • Strong hands-on expertise in **Apache Flink** (minimum 3–5 years preferred). • Deep understanding of stream processing concepts including event-time semantics, watermarking, state backends, and exactly-once guarantees. • Proven experience designing and managing high-throughput, low-latency Flink pipelines. • Strong programming skills in Java or Scala for Flink development. • Experience with distributed messaging systems (e.g., Kafka) and data storage systems. • Familiarity with cluster resource management frameworks (YARN, Kubernetes, or similar). • Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and performance tuning skills specific to Flink workloads. • Experience leading engineering teams and managing cross-functional stakeholders.