Site Reliability Engineer (Hadoop, Kafka)

Your role:

• Ensure Kafka reliability – architecture, topic design, governance, partition strategy, throughput and latency optimization.
• Own Ceph reliability – operations, pool design, placement optimization, capacity planning.
• Build operational automation to reduce manual toil, speed up incident response, and prevent failures before they happen.

Requirements:

• 5+ years running distributed systems reliability at scale in production.
• Deep expertise in Kafka, Ceph, or similar distributed infrastructure.
• Proven ability to design for scale, reliability, and failure recovery.
• Experience mentoring engineers and making technical decisions.
• Willingness to work 9am–6pm ET US hours.

We offer:

• Remote work, high engineering bar and comfortable culture.
• Flat hierarchy with easy access to business, product, and operations.
• Enormous scale (20PB+ cluster) with real growth potential.
• Ownership and direct impact, you have room to shift focus as your interests evolve.