Senior Kafka/RabbitMQ Platform Engineer
Who We're Looking For
An experienced engineer who knows distributed systems not just from documentation - but from production incidents, cluster tuning under load, and writing runbooks that people actually use.
👍English: upper-intermediate+ 🌍 Location: Portugal, Poland, Romania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Germany, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, EU
This is a long-term project with an expected duration of 3 years.
At least 3 years of proven experience in:
- Administration and operation of distributed messaging platforms, including RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka;
- Operational management of Apache Spark workloads, including deployments, scalability, and monitoring;
- Troubleshooting and support for distributed infrastructures and critical data environments;
- Implementation of governance, security, and continuous monitoring practices for messaging and data platforms;
- Production of technical documentation, architecture, and operational procedures.
Proven experience of at least 2 years in:
- AMQP, topics, queues, partitions, offsets, delivery guarantees, and message ordering;
- Configuration and tuning of Kafka clusters and RabbitMQ environments in production;
- DataOps practices and automation (Ansible, Terraform, Python/Bash scripts);
- Advanced integration between messaging platforms and data pipelines
Proven experience of at least 1 (one) year in:
- Operation and administration of ingestion systems such as Debezium or Apache NiFi;
- Docker and Kubernetes for managing containerized environments
- Certification in messaging administration.
What we offer
- Model: B2B contract with Bonapolia - one contract, one monthly invoice
- Rate: negotiated per candidate seniority and client budget
- Payment: monthly invoice, paid on the same schedule the client pays us (usually 30 days)
- Contract written under your country's law
- We handle the client-side paperwork: MSA, NDA, invoicing
🏢 About Bonapolia
Bonapolia is a family-owned IT staff augmentation team based in Lisbon. We build engineering teams for product companies and IT consultancies across Europe and the US.
More at http://bonapolia.com
📩 Ready to Join? We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our team!