Software Engineer - Messaging & Stream Processing Platform - Senior Level

At Globant, we are working to make the world a better place, one step at a time. We enhance business development and enterprise solutions to prepare them for a digital future. With a diverse and talented team present in more than 30 countries, we are strategic partners to leading global companies in their business process transformation.

We seek a Software Engineer - Messaging & Stream Processing Platform, Confluent Kafka, Apache Flink, Kubernetes, Azure, Senior Level who shares our passion for innovation and change. This role is critical to helping our business partners evolve and adapt to consumers' personalized expectations in this new technological era, building, deploying, and maintaining high-throughput, real-time messaging and event-driven distributed systems.

What will help you succeed:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience in backend or platform engineering roles.

• Hands-on experience building, configuring, and maintaining scalable Confluent Kafka and/or Apache Kafka infrastructure with high availability, fault tolerance, and optimal performance.

• Strong practical experience designing and implementing high-volume, low-latency data pipelines and stream processing applications using Apache Flink, Kafka Streams, and Schema Registry.

• Strong proficiency in Java, C# (.NET Core), or Go, alongside solid SQL skills.

• Proven experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud-native deployment practices (IaaS/CaaS), with familiarity in Microsoft Azure infrastructure and services.

• Experience developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and automated operational tasks (broker scaling, zero-downtime deployments, automated failover) using tools such as Terraform, ArgoCD, and Azure Pipelines.

• Strong troubleshooting skills for Kafka topics, Flink jobs, and KStreams applications, including root cause analysis and long-term resolution.

• Experience working within Agile methodologies and DevOps practices, including mentoring junior engineers through code reviews, pair programming, and architectural documentation.

• Nice to have: Experience with local Confluent Kafka setups and ksqlDB, API Gateways (Azure APIM, Tyk), GraphQL/OpenAPI/Swagger, Azure Service Bus, service mesh patterns, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).

This job can be filled from anywhere in Mexico #LI-Remote

Create with us digital products that people love. We will bring businesses and consumers together through AI technology and creativity, driving digital transformation to impact the world positively.

We may use AI and machine learning technologies in our recruitment process. Globant is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. Globant is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.