Streaming Infrastructure Engineer - Romania

Armis, the cyber exposure management & security company, protects the entire attack surface and manages an organization’s cyber risk exposure in real time. In a rapidly evolving, perimeter-less world, Armis ensures that organizations continuously see, protect and manage all critical assets - from the ground to the cloud. Armis secures Fortune 100, 200 and 500 companies as well as national governments, state and local entities to help keep critical infrastructure, economies and society stay safe and secure 24/7.

Armis is a privately held company headquartered in California.

This is a hybrid role based in our Bucharest office (2 days a week in the office) 

The role:

A backend infrastructure expert focused on building the core streaming platform, libraries, tools, and developer enablement capabilities.

At Armis, streaming is at the heart of our product. We run hundreds of streaming applications that transform, aggregate, analyze, and enrich the most valuable data we collect from our clients. We process billions of events and petabytes of raw data daily, and this is just the beginning.

Our mission is to streamline the development process for our streaming services and ensure their flawless performance in production. This involves tackling the complex challenges of scalability, latency, and reliability head-on. By developing robust software libraries, enhancing observability, and managing the entire backend infrastructure, our team delivers innovative solutions while optimizing our systems to provide an exceptional streaming experience for our users.

We are seeking a talented and experienced engineer who is passionate about building and optimizing streaming platforms to join our elite team. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and are eager to tackle complex challenges, we want to hear from you.

What you will do…

• Develop and Maintain Streaming Infrastructure
  Design and support a global streaming platform, creating robust, scalable software libraries that streamline development and ensure reliability and observability for thousands of services.
  
  
• Optimize System Performance
  Conduct research, build proofs of concept, and perform benchmark tests to identify and implement technology improvements across the platform.
  
  
• Improve Infrastructure Observability
  Build internal tooling to improve visibility into streaming pipelines. Create standardized logging, tracing, and metric collection practices.
  
  
• Provide Developer Support and Training
  Mentor developers, document best practices, lead workshops, and provide guidance on how to efficiently and correctly leverage the platform.
  
  
• Support Production System
  Collaborate with DevOps peers to investigate production issues and ensure developer-facing tooling behaves reliably under load.
  
  

What we expect…

• 8+ years in software engineering with a focus on streaming platforms, distributed systems, or backend infrastructure
  
  
• Expertise in Kafka internals – including the protocol, producer/consumer design, topic configurations, offset management, etc.
  
  
• Strong coding skills in Java, Python, or Scala
  
  
• Experience creating and maintaining SDKs, libraries, or developer-facing tooling
  
  
• Proficiency in building observable systems: metrics, logs, tracing, self-healing mechanisms
  
  
• Understanding of Docker, Kubernetes, and deployment flows 
  
  
• Excellent communication and documentation skills, with a passion for enabling developers
  
  

Bonus Qualities:

• Mentorship experience and a leadership mindset
  
  
• Contributions to open source (especially Kafka ecosystem)
  
  
• Community involvement – forums, user groups, Slack communities
  
  
• Speaker at summits or meetups
  
  
• Published articles/blogs about streaming, architecture, or dev tooling
  
  

The choices you make in your career journey matter. You want to do interesting work in an important field while also having time to live your life, which is why we place so much value in your life-work balance. Armis sets you up for success with comprehensive health benefits, discretionary time off, paid holidays including monthly me days, and a highly inclusive and diverse workplace. Put your unique experiences and perspective to work in an environment where they will enable you to thrive, grow, and live your life with integrity.

Armis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We never discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status or any other legally protected (or not) status. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to submit satisfactory proof of identity and legal authorization.

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