Staff Engineer, Cloud Platform (Kafka)

This position is based in Bangalore, India.

The Cloud Platform Engineering team at Calix are responsible for the Platforms, Tools, and CI / CD pipelines at Calix. Our mission is to enable Calix engineers to accelerate the delivery of world-class products while ensuring the high availability, reliability, security, and performance expected by our customers.

We are seeking Cloud Platform Engineers with proven expertise in the design and building of large-scale Cloud Infrastructure Platforms and managing the Kafka Infrastructure to join our team and help us deliver the foundation on which Calix products can thrive. You will help us achieve our mission through innovative solutions. Responsibilities :

• Design, build, and maintain a scalable and reliable Kafka solution using KRaft, Strimzi, Zookeeper, etc.
• Implement integration with KRaft and Strimzi for coordination and leader election.
• Automate the entire lifecycle of platform components from provisioning through decommissioning.
• You’ll help solve problems related to building a global Kafka architecture considering scalability, replication, schema registries and self-service IaC workflows to solve for different use cases such as high traffic telemetry (logs & metrics), business critical events and data processing.
• Ensure Observability is an integral part of the infrastructure platforms and provides adequate visibility about their health, utilization, and cost.
• Build Cloud native CI / CD pipelines, tools and automation that enables developer autonomy and improves their productivity.
• Build tools that predict saturations / failures and take preventive actions through automation.
• Collaborate extensively with cross functional teams to understand their requirements; educate them through documentation / training and improve the adoption of the platforms / tools.
• Provide technical leadership for your peers and help them deliver the best solutions to the rest of Calix.
• As an expert in your area, you will help set the tone for how your team operates. You’ll emphasize modern, rigorous software development practices that emphasize testability, repeatability, and self-service automation.
• You’ll conduct code reviews and mentor more junior developers. You’ll openly collaborate with other teams’ leads and help raise the bar of engineering excellence across the entire organization.

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