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.

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📩 Ready to Join?
We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our team!