Streaming Cloud Kafka SRE (Lead)

Who are we?

At Lenses.io we are on a mission to democratize streaming data, helping businesses to operate in real-time.

Our technology allows organizations to practice DataOps, a new and disruptive way of consuming, processing and moving data. Our product, Lenses, delivers an amazing developer experience for building & operating streaming data applications. It makes working with leading open-source technologies such as Apache Kafka & Kubernetes accessible for more than ten thousand engineers, and operationalizes them for both enterprises including Daimler-Benz and startups such as Babylon Health.

If you're curious, love challenges, and have a great sense of humour then Lenses is the place for you!

What your day-to-day looks like:

This is a brand new team, reporting to the Director of Streaming Cloud, which will be responsible for operating and growing the DataOps Cloud for streaming data. You will:

• Lead a team of highly skilled Kafka SREs managing global deployments of Kafka, reporting to the Director of Streaming Cloud
• Ensure stability of tenants Lenses and Kafka deployments, constantly monitoring, alerting and proactively manage thousands of data pipelines running via Lenses
• Deploy and maintain instances Lenses and Apache Kafka on demand
• Be a part of a team that owns the health of our product and ensure its end-to-end availability and performance according to defined SLOs
• Apply your strong troubleshooting skills and strategic disaster recovery thinking
• Apply software engineering and SRE principles to design, write and deliver software, improve availability, scalability and efficiency of our product
• You will be working extensively with Strimzi and maybe required to contribute back to the project as well as developing and maintaining other Kubernetes operators for Lenses and ancillary services
• Constantly improve our monitoring, metrics and KPIs as well as define and implement missing SLOs
• Drive blameless lessons learned, implement processes and automations to ensure prevention of problem recurrence and document the acquired knowledge sharing it among all teams.

What you bring to the table:

We are going to spend many years working together. It’s important that we are compatible:

• You have experience lead a team, mentoring and helping other grow
• You are metrics driven, constantly working towards goals and KPIs, improving all the time
• You love being an SRE and are eager to learn and become better
• You are not afraid to ask questions, give and receive feedback
• You have experience in most of our primary technology stack (Kafka or Puslar are a must)
• You have strong problem-solving skills, which for us means not only you can solve a problem but also you can explain how you did it and why your solution is correct
• You are security, performance, and best-practice conscious
• You are able to take responsibilities and own projects (implementation or even design-wise)
• You like working in a team and you are able to push through language and cultural barriers to work with engineers all over the world
• You want to automate everything
• No task is beneath or above you. Documentation, support, and even little tasks are things we all do often. This applies even to our CEO!

• Technology
• Customer Success
• Trying new tactics and messaging
• Being part of a team
• Sharing success with others
• Inspiring people

Primary Technology Stack

Experience operating distributed streaming services such as Apache Kafka or Pulsar is required

The most common parts of our current stack include:

• Docker & Kubernetes / Openshift including operator patterns
• ArgoCd
• Azure & Amazon AWS
• Scripting
• Go language
• Strimzi (big plus)
• Apache Kafka, Puslar or other distributed streaming technologies (must)
• Helm / Kustomize
• Java / Scala / Springboot
• Datadog / Prometheus / Grafana

Being Part of the Lenses.io team:

• Lenses.io is part of Celonis, the Decacorn in the enterprise software industry, giving you the opportunity to compete on the world stage.
• You will be exposed to the front-line of streaming technology applied globally. This will give you unique insights that are immensely valuable and rare.
• We are ready to rock the market and offer a competitive salary, generous holiday allowance and strong global and local benefits.
• You will be joining an awesome, constantly evolving and vibrant environment.
• Play a significant role in the development of the company and attain the opportunity for rapid career progression and personal growth.
• Work with exceptional, diverse, professional people at the forefront of their fields.