- Company: Get A Job.ai
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Salary: Pay not listed
Website Get A Job.ai
Represented by Get A Job.ai
About This Opportunity
We are representing a confidential technology client in London seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Event Streaming Systems team. This is a hybrid role working on large-scale distributed infrastructure that powers critical business workflows across a global marketplace platform.
Our client operates a complex three-sided marketplace serving millions of users daily. You'll be building and operating the event streaming infrastructure that supports tier-0 production systems, working with technologies like Kafka and related streaming platforms.
Responsibilities
- Design, build and operate large-scale event streaming infrastructure supporting critical production workloads
- Improve reliability, scalability, observability and automation of Kafka and related streaming platforms
- Debug complex distributed systems issues including performance bottlenecks, capacity constraints and production reliability challenges
- Build infrastructure automation and self-healing capabilities to reduce operational toil and improve platform resilience
- Contribute to incident response, operational readiness and continuous improvement for tier-0 infrastructure
- Partner with Storage, SRE, Data Platform and Core Infrastructure teams across US and EU regions
- Help shape the long-term architecture and evolution of the event streaming platform
What We're Looking For
Required skills and experience:
- Strong hands-on experience building or operating distributed systems in production
- Experience with Kafka or similar event streaming systems as a platform, infrastructure service or critical production dependency
- Strong coding ability in Java, Go, Python or similar languages with focus on reliable, maintainable production systems
- Experience operating scalable production infrastructure including debugging, troubleshooting and improving reliability
- Strong understanding of infrastructure automation, observability, capacity management and operational excellence
- Good fundamentals in Linux, networking and JVM-based systems
- Strong collaboration and communication skills with ability to work across platform, infrastructure and product engineering teams
Nice to have:
- Experience contributing to Kafka or related open source distributed systems
- Experience with Redpanda, WarpStream, AutoMQ, Pulsar or similar streaming technologies
- Experience with JVM tuning, broker tuning, partition management or Cruise Control
- Experience with tiered storage, diskless streaming architectures or multi-region event streaming platforms
- Experience operating tier-0 infrastructure at large scale
How We Work With You
When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your profile and conduct an initial screening call to understand your background and career goals. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your application to our client and coordinate the interview process on your behalf.
The client's interview process typically includes 3-4 stages designed to assess your technical skills and experience with distributed systems. Please do not contact the client directly – all communication should go through our recruiting team at Get A Job.ai to ensure a smooth and coordinated process.
Pay
Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on your experience level and the client's budget for this role.
Equal Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to fostering an inclusive recruitment process. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion or belief. If you require reasonable adjustments during the application process, please let us know.
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A recruiter will review your profile and submit you to the client. Do not contact the client directly.
Apply through Get A Job.ai. A recruiter will review your profile and submit you. Do not contact the client directly.
Apply through Get A Job.ai. A recruiter will review your profile and submit you.
Terms used in this posting
- hybrid
- A work arrangement combining both in-office and remote/at-home work, typically on a set schedule.
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- Role Senior Software Engineer, Event Streaming Systems
- Employer Get A Job.ai
- Location London, England, United Kingdom
- Type Full Time
- Pay (from listing) Pay not listed
- Posted September 23, 2026
- Apply by October 23, 2026
- Country United Kingdom
- Overview Full job description on this page (491 words)
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