Senior Software Engineer - Kafka - m/w/d

About STACKIT

Do you want to conquer the cloud world with us STACKITEERs and shape the future of Europe with us? Great! Then STACKIT is the right place for you. Our vision is ambitious: An independent Europe - digital, leading. As a cloud and colocation provider, we are building the secure infrastructure for it. With our server locations exclusively in Germany and Austria, we offer both the Schwarz Group, to which we belong, and external customers a European alternative to international cloud providers and support our customers holistically with individual solutions.

Your Tasks

• You develop a cloud service based on Apache Kafka - for secure, performant, and sovereign use by our customers
• You create scalable backend systems in Go for messaging and event streaming
• You develop REST APIs with a focus on availability and stability
• You develop Kubernetes Operators to automate the cloud service lifecycle
• You take responsibility for design, implementation, and operation: You Build It - You Run It!
• You work closely with Product Owners and team members in the agile product team

Your Profile

• Your passion is software development with new technologies and you are eager to implement them in practice
• You have sound experience in development with Go and in the productive use of Apache Kafka
• You have experience with Kubernetes, ideally in productive setups, and understand concepts such as Operators, CRDs, or multi-tenant architectures and feel comfortable in modern cloud environments
• You work routinely with tools such as Docker, ArgoCD, Helm, or Terraform
• You have a high quality awareness and use testing, CI/CD, and monitoring specifically to secure your software
• You are eager for teamwork in an agile setup and enjoy sharing knowledge and taking responsibility