1 day ago
Amsterdam, NetherlandsSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and develop managed services and automation for the Kafka platform.
- Build, deploy, and operate reliable services on bare metal and Kubernetes.
- Lead complex technical initiatives and multi-datacenter projects, including replication topologies and storage lifecycle management.
- Own solutions across technical design, implementation, deployment, and production operation.
- Define and manage SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets for the Kafka fleet.
- Oversee cluster health, performance, maintenance, resilience, latency, and resource utilization.
- Collaborate with Compute/Kubernetes, Production Engineering, Hardware Operations, and Product teams on Kafka APIs and client integrations.
- Help define the infrastructure architectural roadmap with the Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager.
- Participate in an on-call rotation currently occurring every five to seven weeks.
Requirements
- Strong backend software engineering and system design skills, ideally with production experience in Go.
- Hands-on experience deploying, operating, and troubleshooting services on bare metal and Kubernetes.
- Experience designing and maintaining distributed systems throughout their production lifecycle.
- Understanding of reliability, scalability, monitoring, safe deployments, and failure recovery.
- Infrastructure operations or site reliability experience, or willingness to develop these skills and participate in on-call.
- Clear technical communication, effective collaboration, and excellent written and spoken English.
Benefits
- Share options programme.
- 25 days of paid annual leave.
- Newest MacBook models.
- Confidential Employee Assistance Program for employees and families.
- Frequent team-building events.
- IT workstation equipment and up to €540 for home-office furniture.
- Daily lunch allowance, company bike leasing, flexible benefits budget, pension plan, Vinted shopping budget, and NS mobility card.
- Dog-friendly office.
- Workation policy allowing remote work for up to 90 days per year in the EU, including up to 21 days globally; non-EU citizens may work up to 21 days worldwide.
- Hybrid work model with two recommended office days per week.
- Annual learning budget starting at €3,000 and up to 10 working days over two years for development.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendSite Reliability
About Vinted
Vinted runs a consumer-to-consumer marketplace and app for buying and selling second-hand fashion and related items across Europe. It monetizes through transaction-related fees, buyer protection, and shipping services, and also operates Vinted Go for logistics and Vinted Pay for payments. Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Vilnius, Lithuania, the platform serves members in 20+ European markets.