Software Engineer - Event Platform

About the Role

As a Software Engineer in the Events Platform team at Gojek, you’ll play a key role in building and maintaining a scalable and reliable platform that enables real-time messaging and event-driven architecture across our products. You’ll work on developing and improving our managed Kafka infrastructure to support high-throughput, low-latency streaming for diverse applications across Gojek’s ecosystem. Your focus will be on solving complex distributed system challenges, enhancing developer experience, and ensuring our platform remains cost-effective, resilient, and easy to use. This role is ideal for engineers who thrive in backend infrastructure, enjoy building tools for other developers, and are passionate about working at scale.

What You Will Do

• Maintain and operate Apache Kafka infrastructure in a high-scale, multi-cloud environment, ensuring high availability, reliability, and performance
• Manage and evolve tools, libraries, and frameworks that support Kafka producers and consumers, improving developer experience and promoting consistency across teams
• Automate operational tasks such as provisioning, scaling, alerting, and recovery to reduce toil and minimize operational overhead
• Enhance system reliability through robust monitoring, failover mechanisms, self-healing workflows, and capacity planning
• Implement self-service capabilities and platform abstractions to reduce time-to-market for teams integrating with Kafka
• Collaborate with internal teams to support event-driven architecture design and troubleshoot platform-related issues
• Contribute to infrastructure as code using Terraform and manage Kubernetes-based deployments for platform components

What You Will Need

• Atleast 2+ years of relevant experience in building applications from scratch, with proficiency in an object oriented or functional programming language (e.g. Java, Golang, Clojure, Python, Ruby etc)
• Basic knowledge of Apache Kafka and its ecosystem (e.g., Kafka Connect, Schema Registry)
• Good understanding of message brokers like RabbitMQ (RMQ)
• Hands-on with Terraform for infrastructure provisioning and automation
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes (K8s) for deploying and managing containerized workloads
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts and multi-cloud architectures
• Comfortable with observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) and CI/CD pipelines

About the Team

We are the heart of Gojek, the group that owns, improves, and manages Gojek's engineering productivity across the board. We are responsible for the pillars of technology, science, and strategy across engineering, powering over 500+ microservices at Gojek. We leverage cutting edge technology in cloud computing managing real time high throughput systems with a wide range of programming stack. At the productivity team, we solve for the happiness of our customers who are Gojek Product Engineers. We do what we do by designing abstractions and automations.

You are directly responsible for improving engineering quality and productivity and experience of engineers driving fundamental business KPI for the company.

About GoTo Group

GoTo Group is the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia with its mission to “Empower Progress’ by offering technological infrastructure and solutions for everyone to access and thrive in the digital economy. The GoTo ecosystem consists of on-demand transportation services, food and grocery delivery, logistics and fulfillment, as well as financial and payment services through the Gojek and GoTo Financial platforms.It is the first platform in Southeast Asia that hosts these crucial cases in a single ecosystem, capturing the majority of Indonesia’s vast consumer household.

About Gojek

Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand platform and pioneer of the multi-service ecosystem with over 2.5 million driver partners across the regions offering a wide range of services such as transportation, food delivery, logistics and more. With its mission to create impact at scale, Gojek is committed to resolving consumer problems and raising standards of living by connecting consumers to the best providers of goods and services in the market.

About GoTo Financial

GoTo Financial accelerates financial inclusion through its leading financial services and merchants solutions. Its consumer services include GoPay and GoPayLater and serve businesses of all sizes through Midtrans, Moka, GoBiz Plus, GoBiz, and Selly. With its trusted and inclusive ecosystem of products, GoTo Financial is open to new growth opportunities and aims to empower everyone to Make It Happen, Make It Together, Make It Last.

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