Software Engineering Manager

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About this role

As a Software Engineering Manager of Cloud Streaming Platform, you must have experience and well-rounded background in a diverse set of messaging middleware solutions (commercial, open source, in-house) with good understanding of architectures of such solutions such Kafka. You’ll need an established track record working with Kafka technology with hands-on production experience and a good understanding of the Kafka and internals of how it works to provide technical guidance and lead team to deliver new products and features.  Main responsibilities for this position include:

• Lead team to design, develop and implement the Kafka ecosystem by creating a framework for leveraging technologies such as Kafka and other streaming-oriented technology
• Lead team to build out the DevOps strategy for hosting and managing our SDP microservice and connector infrastructure in AWS cloud
• Good track record of working with big data technologies around Apache Hadoop, Kafka streaming, No SQL, Java/J2EE and distributed computing platforms in large enterprises where scale and complexity have been tackled.
• Good understanding and application of enterprise software design for implementation of data services and middleware.
• Proven experience participating in agile development projects for enterprise-level systems component design and implementation

What your background looks like

• Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline; Masters preferred
• Knowledge and experience with Java, Scala, Python, Kafka, Containerized Micro Services
• Knowledge and experience with RDBMS (Aurora MySQL) and No-SQL
• AWS Cloud experience – S3, EFS, MSK, ECS, EMR, etc.
• Knowledge of Hadoop/Spark and various data formats like Parquet, CSV, etc. is a plus
• Great attention to details with analytical/curious mind
• Organizational and communication skills

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