Senior Platform Engineer, emnify
Kafka
Cloud-based services for IoT communications
Open for applications
Cloud-based services for IoT communications
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To redefine IoT connectivity and deliver meaningful, impactful experiences for businesses worldwide.
Role
Who you are
- Strong hands-on experience with managed and self-hosted Kafka services (streams, broker, connect)
- With priority to Strimzi operator and AWS MSK
- Good experience with managing Kubernetes clusters (EKS) with emphasis on performance and cost optimization
- Strong understanding of event-driven architecture
- Solid experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo suite)
- Expertise in monitoring, alerting, observability (metrics, logs, traces), and performance tuning
What the job involves
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- You’ll manage and maintain the underlying infrastructure for our Kafka clusters
- 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
- 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
Our take
emnify is the leading cloud communication platform provider for IoT - it provides a cloud-based infrastructure to allow companies and businesses to seamlessly scale up operations globally, creating a pain-free integration process.
The company provides reliable and robust cellular IoT connectivity for a wide range of devices, including those in the agriculture, energy meter, health, and mobility sectors. emnify aims to be customer-focused and works with experts who allow the company to operate within over 70 countries.
Building on this global footprint, emnify is firmly looking to the future. Through its involvement in EU-backed research initiatives like ORIGAMI and NaSA-OMI, the company is helping shape the architectural and security foundations of the next-generation networks, including 6G and satellite-enabled connectivity. By combining real-world IoT use cases with academic and industry collaboration, emnify isn't just a connectivity provider, but an active contributor to how intelligence, secure IoT networks will evolve in the years to come.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2022
$57.8m
SERIES B
Oct 2019
$9.3m
SERIES A
Total funding: $81m
Company HQ
Kreuzberg, Berlin, BE
Leadership
Frank Stoecker
(Co-Founder & CEO)Held roles as VP of Messaging at Brodos and Syniverse. Was also a Managing Director at End2End Connectivity and a General Manager of Messaging at MACH.
Martin Giess
(Co-Founder)Previously an Application Manager at Brodos and the VP of Technology at MACH and Syniverse.
Alexander Schebler
(Co-Founder & VP of Network Access)Previously an Account Manager at Brodos, the Director of Sales at End2End Connectivity, and a VP of Sales and Carrier Relations at MACH and Syniverse.
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