Senior Engineer - Kafka

Hard Rock Digital is a team focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social casino company in the world. We’re building a team that resonates passion for learning, operating and building new products and technologies for millions of consumers. We care about each customer's interaction, experience, behavior, and insight and strive to ensure we’re always acting authentically.

Rooted in the kindred spirits of Hard Rock and the Seminole Tribe of Florida, the new Hard Rock Digital taps a brand known the world over as the leader in gaming, entertainment, and hospitality. We’re taking that foundation of success and bringing it to the digital space — ready to join us?

We are seeking a talented Senior Kafka Engineer to join our team and lead the design and implementation of our Kafka-based streaming platforms. As the Senior Kafka Engineer, you will be responsible for architecting scalable and reliable Kafka solutions that meet our business requirements and support our data processing and analytics initiatives.

• Lead the design and implementation of our Kafka ecosystem, including configuration, deployment, and optimization for reliability, performance and scalability.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and define Kafka use cases and architectures that align with business objectives.

• Design and implement Kafka integration with other data systems and pipelines.

• Implement security measures to protect Kafka clusters and data, including encryption, authentication, and authorization.

• Establish monitoring, alerting, and logging mechanisms to ensure the health and performance of Kafka clusters, and troubleshoot issues as they arise..

• Provide guidance and best practices to development teams on Kafka usage, including producers, consumers, and stream processing applications.

• Collaborate with development teams to define Kafka topics, partitions, and configurations based on application requirements.

• Automate deployment, configuration, and monitoring tasks using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Chef.

• Stay up-to-date with the latest Kafka developments and best practices, and make recommendations for continuous improvement.

Because we operate with a startup mindset, we will be reliant on your technical skill, but also your passion and ownership over all aspects of your work.