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 Zalando’s 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 Zalando’s application developers. You will help to continuously improve the user experience, cost efficiency and reliability of our products. WHAT WE’D 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 WE’D 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, here’s 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: https://jobs.zalando.com/en/?gh_src=22377bdd1us INCLUSIVE 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. do.BETTER - Our Diversity & Inclusion strategy: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/dobetter-our-diversity-and-inclusion-strategy Our Employee Resource Groups: https://corporate.zalando.com/en/our-impact/our-employee-resource-groups