Streaming Platform Engineer (Kafka/ Flink)

In Cyclad we work with top international IT companies in order to boost their potential in delivering outstanding, cutting-edge technologies that shape the world of the future. We are seeking an experienced Streaming Platform Engineer to join large-scale enterprise Kafka / Confluent platform powering 478+ AsyncAPIs and 750+ production topics in a modern, event-driven ecosystem. You will work in a shared responsibility model, contributing to both central platform capabilities and domain-driven topic ownership alongside Producers and Consumers. The main goal is to enhance the platform by introducing: content-based filtering, payload projection and topic joins (extending beyond current header-only filtering).

Project information:
• Type of project: IT services
• Office location: Warsaw, Poland
• Work mode: Remote from Poland
• Budget: 150-170 PLN net/ h- b2b
• Project length: Tiill the end of 2026, possible to extend it
• Only candidates with citizenship in the European Union and residence in Poland
• Start date: ASAP (depending on candidate’s availability)

Project scope:
• Design and implement stream processing solutions using Apache Flink and Flink SQL
• Develop and maintain filtering, projection, and join logic on streaming data
• Build and operate workloads using the Flink Kubernetes Operator
• Implement and maintain Kafka-based integrations, including producers, consumers, and Kafka Connect pipelines
• Design and evolve Avro schemas, ensuring compliance with schema evolution rules
• Integrate solutions with Confluent Schema Registry
• Develop and support Flink SQL rule framework and validation tooling
• Contribute to XML-to-Avro transformation mechanisms (including Kafka Connect SMTs)
• Collaborate with platform and domain teams in a shared ownership model
• Apply AI-assisted (agentic engineering) approaches across design, implementation, and delivery lifecycle
• Troubleshoot and optimize deployments in Kubernetes environments
• Support CI/CD and GitOps practices for rule deployment and configuration management

Competence demands:
• 6-8 years of experience
• Apache Flink (Flink SQL, stateful stream processing)
• Apache Kafka / Confluent (producers, consumers, Kafka Connect)
• Avro & Schema Registry (schema evolution, design)
• Kubernetes (deployments, troubleshooting)
• Flink Kubernetes Operator
• Strong understanding of event-driven architectures
• Very good English skills

Nice to have:
• AsyncAPI (v3)
• Kafka Connect custom SMT development (Java)
• XML / legacy data transformations
• GitOps / CI-CD (YAML, PR-based workflows)

We offer:
• Remote working model
• Dynamic and innovation-driven engineering environment
• Full-time job agreement based on b2b
• Private medical care with dental care (covering 70% of costs)
• Multisport card (also for an accompanying person)
• Life insurance