Software Engineer (Backend Engineer)

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Job Description: What is the opportunity? As a Member of Technical Staff, you will be responsible for: Design, build and maintain reliable, reusable, testable code that expands our platform’s core services and capabilities, while also enhancing their scalability and resilience. Identify and troubleshoot performance and code quality issues. you will take ownership of engineering initiatives and promote a culture of high ownership, continuous improvement, and engineering excellence. Active engagement with different stake holders - Product Managers, Solution Architects, Security Engineering, other members within Engineering and External Partners as needed to define and deliver the required solution. We operate with Dev own quality mindset, which will require your active participation in all stages of software development - requirement, design, coding, test automation and debugging. Perform code reviews and ensure coding best practices. What will you bring to Omnissa? You are expected to have strong experience in the following: Deep hands-on experience with Kafka, including topic design, partitions, replication, retention, and consumer group behavior . Experience operating Kafka in production, including performance tuning, monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response . High proficiency and experience in Unix/Linux platforms. Strong working experience with Python , Docker and Terraform/IAC . Good understanding of and experience in software architecture and high-performance, scalable distributed systems. Solid grasp of application architecture, networking, security, reliability, and scalability concepts. Strong DevOps experience, including building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines. Collaboration skills for working with distributed teams (Omnissa has teams globally). 2-10 years of experience in software engineering. Additionally, the following skills and qualifications will help you stand-out : Experience with managed Kafka services (e.g., AWS MSK). Familiarity with streaming or event‑driven architectures beyond basic pub/sub. Exposure to Kafka security (TLS, SASL, ACLs, IAM-based auth), schema management, or Kafka Connect Comprehensive knowledge and work experience with any or all of the following technologies: Redis, PostgreSQL, and OpenSearch. Strong foundation in Linux file systems, memory, and multi-threading. Experience maintaining a large number of production deployments. Hands-on experience with AWS Cloud solutions and managed cloud services like MSK and Aurora, OpenSearch. Working knowledge of infrastructure technologies such as OS (Linux and Windows), Network, Database, Server, Storage, etc.