Nubank
Lead Systems Engineer (Kafka)
Toronto
Sponsorship not specified$210k-$252kDetected 3 days ago
Distributed SystemsAWSKubernetesSite Reliability EngineeringPlatform EngineeringKafkaSystems EngineeringCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- Operate and improve large-scale messaging and platform infrastructure based on kafka used by critical systems across Nubank
- Contribute to the reliability, scalability, and performance of asynchronous communication platforms
- Improve observability, automation, and operational excellence across the platform
Responsibilities
- Help design and implement solutions for high-throughput, low-latency, and fault-tolerant systems
- Support incident analysis, troubleshooting, and root cause remediation in production environments
- Optimize infrastructure usage and help drive efficiency and cost awareness across AWS-based environments
- Partner with other engineers and teams to evolve platform standards, tooling, and best practices
- This role sits in a team responsible for highly critical platform capabilities that support a wide range of internal systems across multiple business domains and countries.
- Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence-enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience working with distributed systems in production.
- Solid experience with Kubernetes, networking, and AWS in large-scale or business-critical environments.
- Experience operating infrastructure-heavy platforms with high reliability and availability requirements.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across application, infrastructure, and network layers.
- Experience improving observability, automation, and operational tooling.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across team boundaries.
- Kafka experience is desirable, but not required.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems infrastructure, especially Kubernetes, networking, and AWS, is essential.
Nice to have
- Experience with Apache Kafka or other messaging and streaming technologies.
- Experience with platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure-focused backend engineering.
- Familiarity with multi-account AWS environments and large-scale cloud operations.
- Experience with high-throughput event-driven architectures.
- Experience balancing reliability, performance, and cost in production systems.
Compensation
- Base salary range: $210.000 - $252.000
Benefits
- Total compensation includes base salary, RSUs and benefits.
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Extended maternity and paternity leaves
- Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
- NuLanguage - Our language learning program
- NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
Company info
- We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help evolve and operate Nubank's messaging platform and the infrastructure that supports asynchronous communication at scale.
- Nu is the leading digital bank in Latin America, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.
- The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services.
- Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers' complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency.
- At the Lead level, we are looking for someone who can independently own important technical problems, improve reliability and operability, and drive engineering decisions in partnership with the team.
This listing is sourced directly from Nubank's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.