Kafka Database Engineer

For more than 30 years, Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.
Verifone has a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness.
Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets, the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners, and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success.

Verifone is seeking a Database Engineer to join our incredible Platform Engineering team. This is an early career role with a focus on Kafka, where you’ll be hands-on with day-to-day operations, reliability, tuning, automation, high availability for payment gateway solutions that process billions of transactions annually on prem and in AWS Cloud. You will have the opportunity to leverage your experience, and learn other technologies such as Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, etc.

• Manage and support Apache Kafka clusters for high-throughput, fault-tolerant messaging
  and event streaming pipelines.
• Develop and manage automation scripts using Python and Shell scripting to reduce
  manual toil and improve operational efficiency.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or
  similar.
• Monitor system health, set up alerts, and drive incident response and root cause analysis
  (RCA).
• Collaborate with development teams to implement best practices for security, scalability,
  and performance.
• Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to streamline software delivery.
• Containerize and orchestrate workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS / GCP / Azure (VMs, networking, storage, IAM, etc.).
• Continuously identify and implement improvements to the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

• 2+ years of hands-on experience supporting Kafka in a large scale production environment
• Kafka Producer/Consumer Microservices concepts and Kafka distributed Architecture.
• Solid Linux fundamentals: networking basics, logs, system troubleshooting, process/memory,
  disk.
• Comfort with scripting and automation (e.g., Python, Bash).
• Cloud engineering skills, preferably AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, MSK/ElastiCache, CloudWatch)
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD familiarity.
• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics/logs/tracing concepts) and incident response
  practices.
• Basic understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs (availability, consistency, partitions,
  backpressure).
• Strong communication and presentation skills with emphasis on executive communication
• Flexible with regards to working shifts; on-call & weekends

• Operate Redis deployments for caching, ephemeral state, queues/streams, and rate limiting use cases.
• Data engineering skills, including data analytics, data processing, ETL, Data lake (batch and streaming, file formats like Parquet, table formats like Iceberg/Delta/Hudi, basic orchestration), AWS tools (Athena, Glue, Iceberg, Redshift, etc).
• Relational DB experience: PostgreSQL and/or MySQL (indexing basics, vacuum/analyze, query plans, replication fundamentals).
• MongoDB operational familiarity (replica sets, elections, oplog basics, backup/restore).
• Container/Kubernetes familiarity (deployments, stateful workloads, storage classes) is a plus.
• Experience working with PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security) standards
• On-prem experience (VMware/KVM, storage, networking)• Security fundamentals: least privilege, secrets management, encryption-in-transit/at-rest concepts.

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.