Staff Engineer
About the role
We are building an in-house team to maintain and contribute to our internal Apache Kafka distribution. This is not an operations role — you will work on the Kafka codebase itself: the broker, the KRaft controller, the protocol, the clients, and the storage layer. You will be our technical anchor for all things Kafka internals, driving upstream contributions, backporting critical fixes, and shaping our internal distribution to meet the needs of a large-scale production fleet.
Candidates will join an innovative team pushing engineering boundaries. Depending on the domains associated with this job, you will be expected to design clean APIs, write automated test cases, and participate in peer code reviews. We value developers who focus on performance optimization, fast load times, and simple, maintainable architectures.