Your role at Dynatrace

Our team builds and maintains the foundational infrastructure services used across the Dynatrace Platform.

We're looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our Platform Infrastructure team with a focus on Kafka. You will be working with Kubernetes-native operators to deliver highly available, consistent and observable event streaming for our Kubernetes-based platform - at scale, across hundreds of Kafka clusters.

This role is perfect for someone who enjoys developer-side Kubernetes work, running Kafka with Strimzi, keeping large fleets of clusters consistent and up to date, and contributing to operator code when necessary.

Your Responsibilities

- Deploy, operate, and maintain Kafka on Kubernetes using Strimzi across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

- Own the Kafka cluster lifecycle: version upgrades, scaling, partition rebalancing, and capacity planning.

- Manage topics, users, and ACLs declaratively and keep configuration consistent across the fleet - detecting and preventing configuration drift.

- Build pre-release checks and automated quality gates for Kafka changes to catch issues before they reach production.

- Contribute to and debug existing Golang-based operators (Operator Framework).

- Design and template Helm charts for Kafka and related platform services.

- Automate deployments using CI/CD and GitOps principles (ArgoCD).

- Collaborate with platform and product teams to provide reliable, scalable event streaming for Dynatrace products.

- Participate in troubleshooting and incident resolution for Kafka and related infrastructure services.

- Use AI-assisted developer tooling and AIOps to automate toil, speed up troubleshooting,



and continuously improve how we build and operate our services.

- Continuously improve monitoring and observability for Kafka (broker health, consumer lag, under-replicated partitions).

What will help you succeed

Must Have:

- Proven hands-on experience operating Kafka in production (upgrades, scaling, troubleshooting).

- Solid understanding of Kafka internals and distributed-systems fundamentals (partitioning, replication, leader election, consumer groups, delivery guarantees).

- Developer-oriented Kubernetes knowledge (less cluster ops, more application/service integration).

- Scripting/programming expertise in Bash and Go (or another higher-level language).

- Helm proficiency - creating and templating charts.

- Familiarity with CI/CD and GitOps workflows (ArgoCD).

- Experience using AI-assisted developer tooling (e.g. coding assistants, AI-driven troubleshooting) in your daily engineering work.

- Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP (at least one).

- Basic understanding of Kubernetes Operators principles (CRD, Reconciliation) and willingness to contribute to Golang based Operators.

Nice-to-have:

- Experience with Strimzi or another Kafka operator, and with Cruise Control for rebalancing.





- Terraform/OpenTofu experience (infrastructure currently partly managed this way - migrating towards more operators).

- Monitoring & observability experience for Kafka (e.g. Prometheus metrics, consumer lag alerting).

- Experience with any of our broader infrastructure stack: PostgreSQL, Vault, RabbitMQ, Redis, Istio, External Secrets Operator (ESO) or Kyverno. The role offers plenty of opportunity to grow into these services alongside the Kafka focus.

Why you will love being a Dynatracer

- Dynatrace is a leader in unified observability and security.

- We provide a culture of excellence with competitive compensation packages designed to recognize and reward performance.

- Our employees work with the largest cloud providers, including AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, and other leading partners worldwide to create strategic alliances.

- You’ll get to work at the forefront of innovation with Dynatrace Intelligence - the industry's first agentic operations system. Bringing together deterministic and agentic AI, it helps teams understand what's happening, why it matters, and what to do next - automatically.

- Over 50% of the Fortune 100 companies are current customers of Dynatrace.

Compensation and Rewards

Due to legal reasons, we are obliged to list a salary range for this position, which is €74,000 - € 92,000 gross per year based on full-time employment (38.5 h/week). We’ve listed the salary range for transparency, but if your experience and skills bring unique value, we’d still love to hear from you - please apply even if you’re outside the range.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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