We are SoftwareMill - a diverse group of collaborating individuals: total geeks, humanists, fans of fantasy and karate, Apple and Android enthusiasts. Both our differences and shared values allow us to create one of the most people-friendly companies in the IT industry.
And it’s not just our opinion – this unique culture of cooperation has earned us the title of Poland’s Best Workplace in the 50–99 people category, recognized by Great Place to Work! We cooperate 100% remotely, from our homes scattered all over Poland (but not only!).
Interested in starting cooperation with us? See what it takes to become a SoftwareMiller!
We are looking for a Kafka Expert with Admin and Technical Pre-Sales skills. The given role will cooperate with our Business Development & CTO, working on our technological partnerships and consulting.
Our cooperation offer:
- Remuneration ranging from 165 to 210 PLN net per hour for a start
- 100% remote company with remote-first mindset
- Flexible cooperation from any location and without strict schedule
- Professional development and freedom in choosing toolset and tech stack
- Learning-culture expressed by SoftwareMill Academy and technical reading clubs
- Access to many AI tools (Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, etc.)
- Leadership and soft-skills in-house trainings
- English courses
- Small to medium teams with as little procedures as possible
- Best tools you need to make our cooperation effective and pleasurable: monitor(s), computer of your choice
- DevOps-friendly environment with passionate and skilled people who believe in software craftsmanship - you will have a chance to meet some of them during the selection process
- Interesting projects with technologies like Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Terraform, clustering and scaling both horizontally and vertically
What we expect:- Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka administration, performance tuning, and its ecosystem
- Ability to perform Kafka consulting and lead Kafka trainings
- Experience with technical pre-sales activities and direct communication with business stakeholders
- Autonomy in project delivery
- Readiness to represent SoftwareMill at global events (London Current, Kafka Summit, etc.)
- Readiness to conduct demos and workshops with customers, both online and on-site
- Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
- Very good knowledge about Ansible
- Experience with deployment to a cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the industry trends
- Good knowledge of English is a must (both spoken and written), we cooperate with clients from all over the world (USA, Australia, Switzerland, etc.)
- Polish language is required, as internally we are a Polish speaking company
Nice to have:- Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka (CCAAK) and/or Confluent Certified Developer for Apache Kafka (CCDAK)
- Hands-on experience with Confluent Platform
- Very good knowledge about various IaC tools (Terraform, Pulumi, Amazon CDK)
- Experience with Grafana
- Experience with MLOps and/or DevSecOps
- Experience with JVM applications
- Management of multi-node clusters
- Experience in using AI in software development and deployment cycle
- Engagement in the IT community: personal blog, speaking at meetups/conferences, involvement in the open-source projects
- Having a pet-project