Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BRK Tech, a Berkshire Hathaway Group Company, partners with Berkshire Hathaway businesses to design, build, and operate modern technology platforms at massive scale. The Principal Messaging Platform Engineer will build and operate a mission-critical enterprise messaging and integration platform, including Kafka and/or RabbitMQ across multiple data centers, while enabling reliable real-time and batch integrations across energy and power grid systems.
Responsibilities
- Architect and build an enterprise messaging bus for real‑time and batch integrations
- Design and operate Kafka and/or RabbitMQ at enterprise scale (multi‑DC)
- Own topic/queue design, message flows, durability, scaling, and reliability
- Enable integrations via messaging, APIs, service mesh, and event‑driven patterns
- Support vendor‑facing and internal integrations (batch, streaming, real‑time)
- Drive messaging consolidation and modernization across data centers
- Implement open‑source observability and operational best practices
Skills
- • 10+ years of relevant experience with Cloud, Platform, SRE, or DevOps engineering and must have experience building messaging platforms (not just used them)
- • Hands‑on experience building, scaling, configuring and operating Kafka and/or RabbitMQ platforms or similar
- • Enterprise messaging architecture: topic/queue design, flow patterns, scaling, HA
- • Experience with event‑driven and integration‑heavy environments
- • Strong background in Cloud, SRE, Platform, or DevOps engineering
- • Kubernetes and containerized services (on‑prem and/or cloud)
- • API‑based integrations and distributed systems fundamentals
- • Production ownership mindset for mission‑critical systems
- • Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant experience
- • Kafka (multi‑DC), RabbitMQ, Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs
- • Event‑driven / reactive systems (Kafka, Azure Event Grid)
- • Azure PaaS (API Management, Front Door, App Gateway, Container Apps), Service Mesh ( Istio ), Temporal (code‑first workflows) or Azure Logic Apps
- • Open‑source observability stacks
- • Azure Monitor / App Insights / Log Analytics
- • Centralized log and metric forwarding from k8s and messaging platforms
Benefits
- Remote work (US only)
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