Staff/Senior Platform Engineer - Kafka (d/f/m)

emnify

emnify

Berlin, Germany

Posted on Mar 21, 2026

The team and your Role:


As a part of the larger Engineering department, the Platform team plays a crucial role in enhancing emnify’s competitive edge by improving developer experience to increase development efficiency and scale productivity. You will join a growing team, fostering empathy and a collaboration mindset to ensure continuous improvement of development experience at emnify. The Platform team provides, in addition to the centrally managed infrastructure used by all the teams for observability and CI/CD, consultation and hands-on support to the engineering teams. As a platform engineer with Kafka expertise, you’ll take ownership of the Kafka clusters and their supporting infrastructure. You’ll support the team with the maintenance of our managed infrastructur

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Your Impa

  • ct:
    You’ll take part in designing, building, and maintaining the company’s multi-region, highly available, and performant Kafka infrastructure. Further, improve the developer experience of cross-functional teams to integrate their services using an event-driven architec
  • ture.You’ll manage and maintain the underlying infrastructure for our Kafka clus
  • ters.As part of the Platform team, you’ll continuously improve our CI/CD systems and concepts, enabling product teams to safely and efficiently deploy their applications on AWS-managed services and Kubern
  • etes.You’ll collaborate with the product teams and take an active part in implementing new infrastructure and services, providing valuable insights and implementation recommendations to ensure the successful and timely delivery of the proj

ects.
Your Sk

  • ills:
    Strong hands-on experience with managed and self-hosted Kafka services (Kafka Connect) and applications (Kafka Streams). Bonus points if you’ve worked with the Strimzi operator and AWS MSK or developed an in-house Kafka Con
  • nector.Good experience with managing Kubernetes clusters (EKS) with emphasis on performance and cost optim
  • izationStrong understanding of event-driven archi
  • tectureSolid experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo
  • suite)Expertise in monitoring, alerting, observability (metrics, logs, traces), and performance

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Abou

t emnify:
emnify is a global IoT connectivity platform provider, enabling enterprises and OEMs to build, deploy, and operate connected products at scale across 180+ countries. Our cloud-native SuperNetwork powers mission-critical use cases in industries such as mobility, logistics, energy, and indus

trial IoT.
We are a Series
-B scale-up with a strong growth trajectory and a clear focus on upmarket and enterprise customers. emnify’s technology and innovation have been recognized repeatedly by the industry,

  • including:
    eSIM Provider
    of the Year at the MVNOs World
  • Awards 2025Platinum Award for eSIM Management Platform Innovation by Juniper Res
  • earch (2025)IoT Innovator Award by Compass Intelligence for aviation
  • connectivityDeloitte Technology Fast 50 Germany, recognizing emnify as one of the country’s fastest-growing te
ch companies