Senior Streaming & Data Platform Engineer

Plan A Technologies is seeking a Senior Streaming & Data Platform Engineer to centralize ownership of streaming and persistence layers. This role involves acting as a Subject Matter Expert, establishing best practices, improving libraries, and bootstrapping platform capabilities. The engineer will mature the company’s use of event streaming and cloud-native data stores, enabling teams to adopt standardized, scalable patterns. A critical role in evolving the company's data infrastructure.

Must Have

• Design and evolve streaming solutions using Kafka, Pub/Sub.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and observability of streaming systems.
• Partner with teams to standardize database and messaging usage.
• Improve shared libraries and developer-facing abstractions.
• Act as an embedded SME and advisor, guiding architecture and implementation.
• Support SRE-style concerns such as resilience, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• 7+ years of backend, data, or platform engineering experience.
• 4+ years working with streaming technologies.
• Strong experience with cloud-native databases (AWS preferred).
• Experience building and supporting high-throughput, distributed systems.
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures at scale.
• Background in SRE or reliability engineering.

Perks & Benefits

• Generous vacation schedule
• Brand New Laptop
• Upbeat work environment with supportive colleagues
• Opportunity to work remotely 100% or from global offices

JOB OVERVIEW

Plan A Technologies is looking for a Senior Streaming & Data Platform Engineer to help centralize ownership of streaming and persistence layers across the organization. This role is ideal for engineers who can act as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), embedding with internal teams to establish best practices, improve libraries, and bootstrap platform capabilities.

You will play a critical role in maturing the company’s use of event streaming and cloud-native data stores, while enabling teams to adopt standardized, scalable patterns.

Please note: you must have at least 4+ years working with streaming technologies to be considered for this role.

JOB RESPONSIBILITY

• Design and evolve streaming solutions using Kafka, Pub/Sub, or similar technologies
• Improve reliability, scalability, and observability of streaming systems
• Partner with teams to standardize database and messaging usage
• Improve shared libraries and developer-facing abstractions
• Act as an embedded SME and advisor, guiding architecture and implementation
• Support SRE-style concerns such as resilience, monitoring, and operational readiness

EXPERIENCE

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent
• 7+ years of backend, data, or platform engineering experience
• 4+ years working with streaming technologies (Kafka, Pub/Sub, etc.)
• Strong experience with cloud-native databases (AWS data stores preferred)
• Experience building and supporting high-throughput, distributed systems
• Ability to operate as a hands-on technical leader and mentor
• Experience designing platform teams or shared infrastructure layers
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures at scale
• Background in SRE or reliability engineering
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
• Initiative and drive to do great things.

ABOUT THE COMPANY/BENEFITS

Plan A Technologies is an American software development and technology advisory firm that brings top-tier engineering talent to clients around the world. Our software engineers tackle custom product development projects, staff augmentation, major integrations and upgrades, and much more. The team is far more hands-on than the giant outsourcing shops, but still big enough to handle major enterprise clients.

Read more about us here: www.PlanAtechnologies.com .

Location: Work From Home 100% of the time, or come in to one of our global offices. Up to you.

Great colleagues and an upbeat work environment: You'll join an excellent team of supportive engineers and project managers who work hard but don't ever compete with each other.

Benefits: You’ll get a generous vacation schedule, Brand New Laptop, and other goodies.