Senior Data Platform Engineer – Kafka, PostgreSQL

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🚰 Data Engineer

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Mirantis

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501 - 1000 employees

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Mirantis is a company that specializes in container management and cloud infrastructure solutions. It offers a range of products, including Mirantis Kubernetes Engine (MKE), Mirantis OpenStack for Kubernetes (MOSK), and Mirantis Container Cloud (MCC), which provide enterprise-level Kubernetes and container management platforms. Mirantis also develops tools for secure software supply chains, such as the Mirantis Container Runtime (MCR) and Mirantis Secure Registry (MSR). As an advocate for open source technologies, Mirantis supports various projects and provides resources like Lens Desktop, a popular Kubernetes IDE, and technical support for enterprises adopting cloud-native technologies. Their solutions cater to sectors such as public services, financial services, and broader SaaS and technology services industries.

📋 Description

• Deploy, upgrade, scale, and operate PostgreSQL and Kafka on Kubernetes using CloudNativePG, Strimzi, Helm, and operator custom resources • Manage infrastructure declaratively with Argo CD or Flux, Helm, and Terraform • Build CI/CD pipelines for database and Kafka changes, schema migrations, and operator upgrades • Design and operate regional high availability and cross-region disaster recovery • Operate PostgreSQL replica clusters, backups, point-in-time recovery, and Kafka MirrorMaker 2 • Provide product teams self-service provisioning of databases, users, topics, and ACLs through code • Build monitoring and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry • Participate in on-call and lead incident reviews • Implement TLS/mTLS, secrets management, network policies, Kafka ACLs, and per-tenant isolation • Integrate database and Kafka access with Keycloak/OIDC identity platforms • Operate Debezium and Kafka Connect outbox/change-data-capture pipelines • Write automation and small services in Go or Python • Partner with application teams on schema standards and performance troubleshooting

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering • 3+ years running stateful systems (databases or message streaming) in production • Strong hands-on Kubernetes operations, including StatefulSets, persistent volumes and storage classes, pod disruption budgets, scheduling and affinity, network policies, and cluster upgrades • Production experience with PostgreSQL and/or Kafka through Kubernetes operators • Experience authoring and maintaining Helm charts • Day-to-day use of Argo CD or Flux, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines • Practical PostgreSQL administration, including replication and failover, backup and point-in-time recovery, PgBouncer, version upgrades, and performance troubleshooting • Production Kafka operations, including brokers, topics and partitions, replication, consumer groups, monitoring, and capacity planning • Experience designing and testing high availability and disaster recovery with defined RPO/RTO • Strong scripting and programming in Go or Python, plus Bash • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience • Ability to work with cloud and/or bare-metal Kubernetes clusters

🏖️ Benefits

• Professional development and training • Conference and working group attendance • Company outings, happy hours, hackathons, and tech talks • Competitive compensation package with a strong benefits plan • Opportunity to work with talented colleagues and Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers • Open-source innovation environment • Work environment valuing openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth