Sr Software Engineer, Platform at StreamNative

Department: Platform EngineeringEducation: education_optional

Setup: Remote
Level: senior
Posted: Aug 28, 2026

Description

StreamNative is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build and maintain the Kafka service on StreamNative Cloud, a cloud-native streaming platform. The role focuses on distributed systems, storage scalability, reliability, performance optimization, Kafka-compatible APIs, metadata management, and production debugging. The engineer will work on the Platform Engineering team, collaborate with customers and field teams, contribute to open-source projects, and support rotating on-call customer tickets.

Required Skills

Apache Kafka
Distributed systems
Java
Scala
KRaft
Tiered storage
Performance optimization
Kubernetes

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 5+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, backend infrastructure, or cloud services
Experience with Kafka internals, including the Kafka protocol, broker architecture, KRaft, tiered storage, log storage, and compaction
Experience building cloud-native streaming or storage systems
Experience designing and operating reliable production systems
Preferred Qualifications: Experience building cloud-native streaming or storage systems
Familiarity with object storage technologies such as S3, GCS, or Azure Blob Storage
Experience with lakehouse technologies such as Apache Iceberg or Parquet
Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure
Translation Company Name: StreamNative