Kafka Database Engineer

Why Verifone

For more than 30 years Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.

Verifone has a diverse dynamic and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers merchants banks and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness.

Across the globe Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience innovation and an ambitious spirit. Whether its developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers partners and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success.

Whats Exciting About the Role

Verifone is seeking a Database Engineer to join our incredible Platform Engineering team. This is anearly career role with a focus on Kafka where youll be hands-on with day-to-day operationsreliability tuning automation high availability for payment gateway solutions that process billionsof transactions annually on prem and in AWS Cloud. You will have the opportunity to leverage yourexperience and learn other technologies such as Redis MongoDB PostgreSQL MySQLSnowflake etc.

This hybrid role is open to hiring candidates located in:

• Bucharest Romania
• London United Kingdom
• Riga Lativa
• Warsaw Poland

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support Apache Kafka clusters for high-throughput fault-tolerant messaging
  and event streaming pipelines.
• Develop and manage automation scripts using Python and Shell scripting to reduce
  manual toil and improve operational efficiency.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform Ansible or
  similar.
• Monitor system health set up alerts and drive incident response and root cause analysis
  (RCA).
• Collaborate with development teams to implement best practices for security scalability
  and performance.
• Design implement and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery.
• Containerize and orchestrate workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS / GCP / Azure (VMs networking storage IAM etc.).
• Continuously identify and implement improvements to the software development lifecycle(SDLC).

Required Qualifications/Skills

• 2 years of hands-on experience supporting Kafka in a large scale production environment
• Kafka Producer/Consumer Microservices concepts and Kafka distributed Architecture.
• Solid Linux fundamentals: networking basics logs system troubleshooting process/memory
  disk.
• Comfort with scripting and automation (e.g. Python Bash).
• Cloud engineering skills preferably AWS (EC2 VPC IAM MSK/ElastiCache CloudWatch)
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD familiarity.
• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics/logs/tracing concepts) and incident response
  practices.
• Basic understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs (availability consistency partitions
  backpressure).
• Strong communication and presentation skills with emphasis on executive communication
• Flexible with regards to working shifts; on-call & weekends

Preferred Skills (Not Mandatory)

• Operate Redis deployments for caching ephemeral state queues/streams and rate limiting use cases.
• Data engineering skills including data analytics data processing ETL Data lake (batch and streaming file formats like Parquet table formats like Iceberg/Delta/Hudi basic orchestration) AWS tools (Athena Glue Iceberg Redshift etc).
• Relational DB experience: PostgreSQL and/or MySQL (indexing basics vacuum/analyze query plans replication fundamentals).
• MongoDB operational familiarity (replica sets elections oplog basics backup/restore).
• Container/Kubernetes familiarity (deployments stateful workloads storage classes) is a plus.
• Experience working with PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security) standards
• On-prem experience (VMware/KVM storage networking) Security fundamentals: least privilege secrets management encryption-in-transit/at-rest concepts.

Our Commitment

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.