Kafka Expert (Staff/Principal)

Our cooperation offer: • Remuneration ranging from 165 to 210 PLN net per hour for a start • 100% remote company with remote-first mindset • Flexible cooperation from any location and without strict schedule • Professional development and freedom in choosing toolset and tech stack • Learning-culture expressed by SoftwareMill Academy and technical reading clubs • Access to many AI tools (Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, etc.) • Leadership and soft-skills in-house trainings • English courses • Small to medium teams with as little procedures as possible • Best tools you need to make our cooperation effective and pleasurable: monitor(s), computer of your choice • DevOps-friendly environment with passionate and skilled people who believe in software craftsmanship - you will have a chance to meet some of them during the selection process • Interesting projects with technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, clustering and scaling both horizontally and vertically What we expect: • Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka administration, performance tuning, and its ecosystem • Ability to perform Kafka consulting and lead Kafka trainings • Experience with technical pre-sales activities and direct communication with business stakeholders • Autonomy in project delivery • Readiness to represent SoftwareMill at global events (London Current, Kafka Summit, etc.) • Readiness to conduct demos and workshops with customers, both online and on-site • Experience with Kubernetes and Docker • Very good knowledge about Ansible • Experience with deployment to a cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.) • Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the industry trends • Good knowledge of English is a must (both spoken and written), we cooperate with clients from all over the world (USA, Australia, Switzerland, etc.) • Polish language is required, as internally we are a Polish speaking company Nice to have: • Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK) and/or Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK) • Hands-on experience with Confluent Platform • Very good knowledge about various IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, Amazon CDK) • Experience with Grafana • Experience with MLOps and/or DevSecOps • Experience with JVM applications • Management of multi-node clusters • Experience in using AI in software development and deployment cycle • Engagement in the IT community: personal blog, speaking at meetups/conferences, involvement in the open-source projects • Having a pet-project