Senior Kafka/RabbitMQ Platform Engineer
TypeContract
LocationBosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Romania
Posted1 hour ago
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
📩 Ready to Join?
We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our team!
Originally posted on Himalayas
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
📩 Ready to Join?
We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our team!
Originally posted on Himalayas
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