Senior Platform Engineer, Event Streaming Platform (Kafka)

wolt · Berlin

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Company
wolt
Location
Berlin
Posted
August 25, 2026

About this job

About the Role We're looking for an experienced Platform Engineer to join Event Streaming team — the distributed team responsible for the Kafka infrastructure and event streaming systems that power business-critical workflows across Wolt, Deliveroo and DoorDash. You'll be joining a team that operates at the intersection of Platform Engineering and Reliability Engineering, building and running the streaming backbone that is used by thousands of services across 3 companies. This is deeply technical work: you'll own distributed systems at scale, contribute to long-term architecture decisions, and be working on the reliability of critical parts of infrastructure. What You'll Be Doing You’ll be joining the team within the broader Storage organisation.

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