Senior Platform Engineer - Kafka (d/f/m) at emnify

Company: emnify
Location: Berlin
Employment type: full-time
Posted: 2026-08-10

<h4 data-renderer-start-pos="16" data-local-id="dda67f0e-a966-4a12-a16a-2abc76fb0bd7">The team and your Role:&nbsp;&nbsp;</h4> <p data-renderer-start-pos="944" data-local-id="1105a450-4434-4f6b-bfce-c1655d0edf78">As a part of the larger Engineering department, the Platform team plays a crucial role in enhancing emnify’s competitive edge by improving developer experience to increase development efficiency and scale productivity.&nbsp; You will join a growing team, fostering empathy and a collaboration mindset to ensure continuous improvement of development experience at emnify. The Platform team provides, in addition to the centrally managed infrastructure used by all the teams for observability and CI/CD, consultation and hands-on support to the engineering teams.&nbsp; As a platform engineer with Kafka expertise, you’ll take ownership of the Kafka clusters and their supporting infrastructure. You’ll support the team with the maintenance of our managed infrastructure&nbsp;</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1708" data-local-id="c7e94a27-10e7-4294-9922-d1370988cee0"><a class="_ymio1r31 _ypr0glyw _zcxs1o36 _mizu1v1w _1ah3dkaa _ra3xnqa1 _128mdkaa _1cvmnqa1 _4davt94y _4bfu1r31 _1hms8stv _ajmmnqa1 _vchhusvi _kqswh2mm _ect4ttxp _syaz13af _1a3b1r31 _4fpr8stv _5goinqa1 _f8pj13af _9oik1r31 _1bnxglyw _jf4cnqa1 _30l313af _1nrm1r31 _c2waglyw _1iohnqa1 _9h8h12zz _10531ra0 _1ien1ra0 _n0fx1ra0 _1vhv17z1" href="https://emnify.github.io/tech-radar/" data-renderer-mark="true"><u data-renderer-mark="true">Emnify technology radar</u></a>&nbsp;</p> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1734" data-local-id="884b9e42-89b3-4e50-96af-d722fc85e53c">The position is a hybrid position based in emnify’s office in Berlin.&nbsp;</p> <h4 id="Your-Impact:" data-local-id="245b96e0-61b5-4875-8149-3ffbd67e0b6a" data-renderer-start-pos="1806">Your Impact:&nbsp;</h4> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="618ec205-02bd-40c3-9e6f-680bcafb8af5" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="1823" data-local-id="d4a16864-9c7b-4286-aa9a-c1e095f87058">You’ll take part in designing, building, and maintaining the company’s multi-region, highly available, and performant Kafka infrastructure. Further, improve the developer experience of cross-functional teams to integrate their services using an event-driven architecture.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> </li> </ul> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="bef2d806-3847-4804-802a-6cab93156bbb" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2102" data-local-id="a147606c-bc0c-4620-b428-8b5a85c9b0d7">You’ll manage and maintain the underlying infrastructure for our Kafka clusters.&nbsp;</p> </li> </ul> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="05c0ae43-1629-4e6e-ab14-cc26b45fca31" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2189" data-local-id="2918c73d-f31f-4b32-ae1e-68195c0f1b0c">As part of the Platform team, you’ll continuously improve our CI/CD systems and concepts, enabling product teams to safely and efficiently deploy their applications on AWS-managed services and Kubernetes.&nbsp;</p> </li> </ul> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="9f1d67b2-bd36-4db6-921c-d1747692c0a1" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2400" data-local-id="65b79745-aa83-4f91-9304-4a2f804f096a">You’ll collaborate with the product teams and take an active part in implementing new infrastructure and services, providing valuable insights and implementation recommendations to ensure the successful and timely delivery of the projects.&nbsp;</p> </li> </ul> <h4 id="Your-Skills:" data-local-id="106ae6a1-a6c1-4b2d-a8a8-08e79b0b2c2c" data-renderer-start-pos="2644">Your Skills:&nbsp;</h4> <ul> <li data-renderer-start-pos="2661" data-local-id="b5385734-da46-40b0-9936-0415cd95f963">Strong hands-on experience with managed and self-hosted Kafka services (streams, broker, connect). With priority to Strimzi operator and AWS <span data-highlighted="true" data-vc="highlighted-text">MSK.</span></li> </ul> <ul class="ak-ul" data-local-id="72659dea-282a-48c7-9e2b-671be2780813" data-indent-level="1"> <li> <p data-renderer-start-pos="2812" data-local-id="c2fabf91-e1e0-43ce-aa00-cb04604b56e6">Good experience with managing Kubernetes clusters (<span data-h

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