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Site Reliability Engineer - Messaging/Kafka

Created on 11-04-2019
Location Budapest

Description

Site Reliability Engineer - Messaging/Kafka


We are looking for a Site Reliability Engineer - Messanging/Kafka to join our growing team in Budapest within our Service Platform team.  


The team is responsible for stateful distributed systems, including Kafka and ZooKeeper, which is critical for crucial workloads in backend processing system, that powers and drives the horizontal scaling of the platform.


Your Mission


You’ll be working hands on designing, architecting and implementing our stateful systems on AWS, as well as on-premise data centres. In addition, you will also help our product engineers use the clients to interact with these systems, laying down best practices and rules. You should have a deep understanding of distributed systems, knowing the tradeoffs and failure scenarios that can happen.


It’s not a team that works in isolation, there are multiple teams in platform who will be able to help. You will be working closely with the platform-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service teams, to ensure we are providing the best platform for product engineers.


Must Have


  • Messaging systems (Kafka/ActiveMQ/RabbitMQ)
  • Leader election (ZooKeeper/etcd)
  • Understanding of Java application code, and/or other JVM languages
  • Sysadmin ability to debug issues with disk, network, app performance etc
  • Experience in infrastructure automation tools (Ansible/Puppet/Chef)
  • Experience with building out scalable and automated Cloud platforms on preferably AWS

Nice to Have


  • Knowledge of Spring frameworks, especially Messaging
  • Experience in Kafka streams, or other equivalent streaming tech
  • Amazon’s messaging offerings, such as SQS, Kinesis
  • Sysadmin knowledge of networks, firewall for AWS and on-prem
  • Have ran performance and load tests at scale, and able to forecast capacity for the future

Key Areas of the role;


  • Define and create standard operating procedures that are compliant and auditable
  • Ownership of mission-critical shared infrastructure - run, maintain and schedule upgrades
  • Isolation of environments and work with various engineering teams to figure out how to best suit their needs
  • Sees failover and DR events as something that needs to happen with regularity and should be seamless

More about us here:


https://tech.transferwise.com/the-transferwise-stack-heartbeat-of-our-little-revolution/


And for a sneak peek into the TransferWise world of Engineering check out our Tech Blog: https://tech.transferwise.com/


What we offer in return:


  • Competitive base salary
  • Generous stock options package
  • Lots of awesome TransferWise benefits

A bit about TransferWise...


Since 2011, we’ve had a clear mission: money without borders. Built by and for people who live global lives, we’re the fairest, easiest way to manage your money across borders.


We’re just at the beginning of our story and we’re growing at an incredible pace. We won’t stop until anyone, anywhere can send, spend and receive money wherever they are, whatever they’re doing. There’s still heaps to do and we can’t do it alone.


Our People


At TransferWise, you’ll be joining a movement of people who believe in a better, fairer, more transparent way of moving money around the world. You’ll collaborate to do your best work and take on problems that no one has looked at before.


If you’re keen to learn, grow, try new things and aren’t afraid of a bold plan, you’ll fit right in.


How we work...


At TransferWise our strategy emerges from the collective brainpower of all our people, who are organized in dozens of independent, autonomous teams. Teams stay closest to our customers, so they choose what problems to solve and where to spend the most time.


You’ll experience radical levels of ownership and empowerment within your role. Plus the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work on our customers.#LI-JP1

Benefit

All expenses paid company holiday

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Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

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Sauna

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Table tennis, Xbox and board games

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Team lunch

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Vision care

Vision care

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