Senior Software Engineering
Senior Software Engineering
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Job Description
THE ROLE AND THE TEAM
Senior Software Engineer - Event Streaming as a Service
As part of the Event Streaming team you will be improving extending and operating Zalandos core Event Streaming Platform. The platform enables all development teams to communicate at scale between services and builds the bridge to the central data lake. Built on top of Apache Kafka the Event Streaming Platform provides a fast and efficient solution to many of Zalandos application developers. You will help to continuously improve the user experience cost efficiency and reliability of our products.
WHAT WED LOVE YOU TO DO (AND LOVE DOING)
Good software engineering skills and fundamental knowledge of engineering principals across the software development life cycle
Display ownership for our services from problem formulation inception to solution design as well as delivery and operations
Closely collaborate with Product Management (and other roles) to refine the functional requirements and build test cases to be verified during development and feature release
Suggest and drive solutions that simplify the technical architecture of individual services or pay down technical debt
Openness to grow less experienced engineers and new joiners
Live operational excellence including deployment automation observability and general resilience of our platform products
Support Zalando developers in effectively using our platform services through documentation support requests training etc.
Investigate issues in software libraries and cloud infrastructure
WED LOVE TO MEET YOU IF YOU
5 years of recent industry experience as a systems or software engineer
Production grade knowledge in Java coupled with excellent general software engineering skills Go and Python is a puls
Experience with Apache Kafka Kafka Streams Apache Flink and similar event streaming systems
Experience in designing distributed systems or microservices
Experience in REST API design
Experience building and running large-scale distributed systems
AWS knowledge and/or Kubernetes experience is a plus
OUR OFFER
Zalando provides a range of benefits heres an overview of what you can expect. Ask your Talent Acquisition Partner to learn more about what we offer.
Employee shares program
40% off fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando 30% off Zalando Lounge discounts from external partners
2 paid volunteering days a year
Hybrid working model with 60% remote per week actual practice is up to each team to best support their collaboration
Work from abroad for up to 30 working days a year
27 days of vacation a year to start
Relocation assistance available (subject to prior agreement)
Family services including counseling and support
Health and wellbeing options (including Gympass)
Mental health support and coaching available
Learn all about Zalando and our values here: BY DESIGN
At Zalando our vision is to be inclusive by design. And this vision starts with our hiring - we do not discriminate on the basis of gender identity sexual orientation personal expression ethnicity religious belief or disability status. You are welcome to leave out your picture age or marital status from your application. We only assess candidates on their qualifications and merit.
We want to provide you with a great candidate experience. Feel free to inform us of any accommodations you may need so we can best support you throughout the hiring process.
- Our Diversity & Inclusion strategy: Employee Resource Groups:
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
