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Be ready to design an order-event pipeline, debug lag/rebalances, explain compaction/retention tradeoffs, and walk through a past outage you owned end to end on a shared streaming platform.
Strong fit if you have senior Kafka/platform experience and want on-site Berlin ownership of Wolt’s event backbone; weaker if you prefer app features over shared streaming infrastructure.
As Senior Platform Engineer on Wolt’s Event Streaming Platform (Kafka), expect ownership of cluster reliability, topic/schema standards, producer/consumer guidance for order and courier events, incident response, and capacity/cost tuning so marketplace services stay resilient under peak load.
Prioritize Apache Kafka operations (partitions, consumer groups, exactly-once/idempotent patterns), JVM/Go/Python client fluency, observability, and IaC for streaming infra. No certification resources were supplied.
The listing marks remote as 0, so expect Berlin-based work.
Event streaming platform engineering centered on Kafka for Wolt’s delivery marketplace.
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Wolt Enterprises Oy, trading as Wolt, is a Finnish food delivery company known for its delivery platform for food and merchandise. On Wolt's apps or website, customers can order food and household goods from the platform's restaurant and merchant partners, and either pick up their order or have it delivered by the platform's courier partners. Wolt also runs its own chain of grocery stores called Wolt Market. Wolt is headquartered in Helsinki.
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Senior Platform Engineer, Event Streaming Platform (Kafka) - Wolt - English | Berlin, Germany Role Overview We're seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Event Streaming team at Wolt. As part of the distributed team responsible for Kafka infrastructure and event streaming systems, you'll contribute to building and running the streaming backbone that powers business-critical workflows across multiple companies. This role involves owning distributed systems at scale and making long-term architecture decisions. Key Responsibilities Build and operate highly reliable, scalable, and efficient event streaming infrastructure, including Kafka and in-house Event Streaming abstraction (Event Bus). Contribute to the reliability of critical parts of infrastructure used by thousands of services across multiple companies. Participate in long-term architecture decisions that shape the future of our event streaming platform. What You Bring Experience with distributed systems and large-scale infrastructure. Proficiency in Kafka and related technologies. A strong background in reliability engineering and platform engineering. Ability to work on complex, high-impact projects that require a deep understanding of system design and implementation. Working at Wolt - English At Wolt, we create technology that brings joy, simplicity, and earnings to the neighborhoods of the world. We started with delivery of restaurant food in 2014 and have since expanded to delivering (almost) everything across over 500 cities in 30 countries. In 2022, we joined forces with DoorDash, continuing our expansion and global reach. Working at Wolt isn't always easy but it's definitely exciting. You'll learn more, build more, and ship more than in most other companies. Challenges are plentiful, but so is the fun. Next Steps If you're a self-starter with drive and an entrepreneurial spirit, this could be the ride of your life. To apply, complete your application directly on this page, or you'll be redirected to the employer's application platform to finish submitting there.
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