Kafka Database Engineer

Verifone is seeking a Database Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This is an early career role with a focus on Kafka, where you’ll be hands-on with day-to-day operations, reliability, tuning, automation, high availability for payment gateway solutions that process billions of transactions annually on prem and in AWS Cloud.

Requirements

• Operate and support Kafka clusters in MSK, and on-prem physical/virtual platforms
• Troubleshoot producer/consumer issues
• Manage Kafka Connect ecosystem, Debezium, KSQL, Schema Registry
• High availability, replication, backup and recovery strategies
• Kafka version upgrades in dev and production environments
• Support schema/contract patterns
• Monitor cluster health and performance
• Help with incident response and postmortems
• Support and improve centralized logging and search
• Build automation for provisioning, configuration, and routine maintenance
• Implement and improve monitoring/alerting and dashboards
• Participate in on-call rotation and support production systems
• Document systems and operational procedures clearly

Benefits

• Diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment
• Opportunities to excel and contribute to the success of the company
• Access to leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners
• Competitive compensation and benefits package