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Kafka Expert

  • Remote
    • Remote, Mazowieckie, Poland
  • SoftwareMill

Job description

We are SoftwareMill - a diverse group of collaborating individuals: total geeks, humanists, fans of fantasy and karate, Apple and Android enthusiasts. Both our differences and shared values allow us to create one of the most people-friendly companies in the IT industry.

And it’s not just our opinion – this unique culture of cooperation has earned us the title of Poland’s Best Workplace in the 50–99 people category, recognized by Great Place to Work! We cooperate 100% remotely, from our homes scattered all over Poland (but not only!).

Interested in starting cooperation with us? See what it takes to become a SoftwareMiller!

We are looking for a Kafka Expert with Admin and Technical Pre-Sales skills. The given role will cooperate with our Business Development & CTO, working on our technological partnerships and consulting.

What we 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

Job requirements

Must have

  • 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

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