Software Engineer (DevOps) - Managed Storage

About RevolutPeople deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products — including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more — help our 70+ million customers get more from their money every day.As we continue our lightning-fast growth,‌ 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we've been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 13,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we're looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.About the roleOur Technology team builds the systems and experiences that keep Revolut moving. From the infrastructure behind our innovative app to the features used by millions of people around the world, they bring sharp thinking, speed, and a focus on meaningful impact to everything they do.We’re looking for a Software Engineer with expertise in self-managed storage solutions, such as Redis and Kafka, who’s excited about building and operating critical infrastructure at a global scale.Since most of our core infrastructure is designed, built, and operated internally, you'll be developing for resilience, automation, and scale from day one.Up to shape what’s next in finance? Let’s get in touch.What you'll be doingDesigning, operating, and evolving our storage solutions, such as Kafka clusters at scale, across cloud and/or on-premise environmentsBuilding and maintaining self-managed, highly available distributed systems (messaging, storage, data infrastructure)Architecting multi-region deployments, failover strategies, and disaster recovery for mission-critical systemsDeveloping infrastructure as code and internal self-service platforms to enable engineering teams to provision and operate safely at scaleDriving automation across provisioning, scaling, upgrades, patching, and incident remediationContributing to reliability standards (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets) and improving observability across the stackWorking closely with backend, platform, security, and compliance teams to design infrastructure that meets regulatory and audit requirementsParticipating in incident response and postmortem processes, focusing on systemic improvements rather than firefightingWhat you'll needExpertise operating Apache Kafka in production at scale, including cluster provisioning, lifecycle management, capacity planning, performance tuning, replication, failover, and resilience designKnowledge of security hardening (ACLs, encryption, authentication)A background in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineeringA deep understanding of distributed systems concepts (consensus, partitioning, fault tolerance, backpressure, networking)Experience with Linux, containerisation (Docker), and KubernetesExpertise with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and configuration management (e.g., Ansible)Familiarity with CI/CD systems and automation pipelinesThe ability to independently design and deliver complex systems in collaboration with multiple internal stakeholdersHands-on software engineering skillsNice to haveExperience operating other stateful systems at scale (e.g., Postgres, Redis, object storage)Knowledge of monitoring and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Stackdriver, Vector, VictoriaMetrics)Exposure to regulated environments or financial systemsExperience operating infrastructure across cloud (GCP/AWS) and on-premise environmentsCompensation rangeKrakow: PLN28,300 - PLN40,000 gross monthly*Poland: PLN28,300 - PLN40,000 gross monthly*Other locations: Compensation will be discussed during the interview process*Final compensation will be determined based on the candidate's qualifications, skills, and previous experienceBuilding a global financial super app isn’t enough. Our Revoluters are a priority, and that’s why in 2021 we launched our inaugural D&I Framework, designed to help us thrive and grow everyday. We're not just doing this because it's the right thing to do. We’re doing it because we know that seeking out diverse talent and creating an inclusive workplace is the way to create exceptional, innovative products and services for our customers. That’s why we encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences to join this multicultural, hard-working team.