Staff Software Engineer - Streaming

About the role

Checkout.com is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead the design and implementation of a large‑scale event streaming platform. You will work with stream processing technologies to enable reliable, scalable, AI‑powered data applications across the company.

Key responsibilities

• Work with stream processing technologies (Kafka and Flink) to build a continuously available large‑scale event streaming platform.
• Provide leadership, mentoring, and strategic influence while building strong relationships with engineers and engineering managers.
• Build tooling (modules/SDKs/DSLs) and documentation to foster adoption of the streaming platform.
• Implement infrastructure enabling end users to build, host, monitor, and deploy their own streaming applications.
• Consult across the technology organisation to drive platform adoption and unlock event‑driven use cases.
• Translate requirements and architecture designs into actionable plans.
• Provide hands‑on support for event‑based systems, including incident triage and root‑cause analysis.

Required profile

• Strong presentation and communication skills with a proven track record of influencing engineering organisations.
• Strong engineering background with experience implementing and owning event streaming platforms.
• Hands‑on experience with stream technologies, ideally Kafka.
• Experience designing and implementing stream processing applications with Flink.
• Experience with cloud‑based technologies such as AWS (MSK, S3, Lambda, ECS, SNS).
• Experience with Kubernetes, either self‑hosted or on the cloud.
• Experience with SQL databases.
• Experience with Docker and container deployment.
• Experience describing infrastructure as code (Terraform or similar) and designing CI/CD pipelines.
• Excellent programming skills in Java or Python.

Required skills

• Kafka
• Flink
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• SQL
• Docker
• Terraform
• CI/CD pipelines
• Java
• Python