Senior Kafka/RabbitMQ Platform Engineer

Location: Warszawa, Poland; Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Bucharest, Romania; Belgrade, Serbia; Berlin, Germany; Lisboa, Portugal Workplace: fully Who We're Looking For An experienced engineer who knows distributed systems not just from documentation - but from production incidents, cluster tuning under load, and writing runbooks that people actually use. 👍 English: upper-intermediate+ 🌍 Location: Portugal, Poland, Romania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Serbia, Germany, Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, EU This is a long-term project with an expected duration of 3 years . At least 3 years of proven experience in: • Administration and operation of distributed messaging platforms, including RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka; • Operational management of Apache Spark workloads, including deployments, scalability, and monitoring; • Troubleshooting and support for distributed infrastructures and critical data environments; • Implementation of governance, security, and continuous monitoring practices for messaging and data platforms; • Production of technical documentation, architecture, and operational procedures. Proven experience of at least 2 years in: • AMQP, topics, queues, partitions, offsets, delivery guarantees, and message ordering; • Configuration and tuning of Kafka clusters and RabbitMQ environments in production; • DataOps practices and automation (Ansible, Terraform, Python/Bash scripts); • Advanced integration between messaging platforms and data pipelines Proven experience of at least 1 (one) year in: • Operation and administration of ingestion systems such as Debezium or Apache NiFi; • Docker and Kubernetes for managing containerized environments • Certification in messaging administration. What we offer Model: B2B contract with Bonapolia - one contract, one monthly invoice Rate: negotiated per candidate seniority and client budget Payment: monthly invoice, paid on the same schedule the client pays us (usually 30 days) Contract written under your country's law We handle the client-side paperwork: MSA, NDA, invoicing 🏢 About Bonapolia Bonapolia is a family-owned IT staff augmentation team based in Lisbon. We build engineering teams for product companies and IT consultancies across Europe and the US. More at bonapolia.com 📩 Ready to Join? We look forward to receiving your application and welcoming you to our team!