Senior Staff Engineer - Kafka

We are opening this position in the US to find an engineer with a highly specialized skill set that is critical to our current needs. The messaging team is responsible for maintaining and operating a high-throughput messaging platform built on Apache Kafka. This system processes trillions of messages every month and underpins mission-critical, low-latency systems used across clusters. As Nubank rapidly expands, we face significant scalability and operational challenges. Your main activities will include operating a large-scale Kafka infrastructure, ensuring high reliability for systems processing petabytes of data, developing strategies to support over a million Kafka topics, optimizing resource utilization, and driving the evolution of asynchronous communication patterns.