Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer

Dell Technologies
Round Rock, TX
On-site

Who this role is best for

Aimed at mid-to-senior level platform engineers who can design, manage, and optimize large-scale messaging and streaming systems.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with 6-12 years of hands-on experience in Kafka and RabbitMQ for enterprise systems
    — “6 to 12 years of experience in middleware Kafka messaging”
  • Professionals with strong background in cloud and legacy application monitoring and operations
    — “Work independently on day-to-day monitoring and operations of cloud and legacy applications”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a strong focus on AI-assisted engineering practices and automation
    — “develop automation using AI-assisted engineering practices”
  • Geographic alignment with Round Rock, Texas is likely important for in-person collaboration
    — “Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social imp[REDACTED] a Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer on our Dell IT team in Round Rock, Texas”

How to stand out

  • Highlight experience with AI-assisted observability and incident management tools in your resume
    — “Leverage AI-powered development and operational tools to accelerate troubleshooting”
  • Emphasize your ability to design highly available messaging platforms and ensure security
    — “Identify and implement best practices to support a highly available platform”
  • Showcase your expertise in automation using Python and Ansible in your application materials
    — “Proficiency with Python, shell scripts, & configuration management tools, preferably Ansible”
  • Demonstrate your experience with performance tuning and scalability of Kafka systems
    — “Address performance and scalability challenges posed by new or changing Kafka producers and consumers”
Pace · SteadyCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Team

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What success looks like

  • designing and supporting enterprise large-scale distributed messaging platforms
  • implementing best practices for highly available platforms
  • providing operational support for platform issues
Typical background
6-12 years middleware messaging experiencedistributed architecture solutions

Skills & requirements

Required

RabbitmqKafkaMonitoring And Logging ToolsConfiguration Management ToolsAi-powered Development And Operational ToolsDistributed Architecture

Preferred

Generative AIAgentic AIKubernetes Container OrchestrationDocker ContainersIBM MQActive MQApache Flink

Stack & domain

KafkaRabbitmqPythonShell ScriptsAnsibleIT Infrastructure

About the role

Original posting from Dell Technologies

Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer 

The ability to drive human progress through technology relies on robust and reliable IT infrastructure – and that’s what our IT Infrastructure team provides to our customers. We’re a team of experts optimizing the performance and integrity of IT infrastructure and ensuring consistency and synchronization across all infrastructure components. In addition to supporting new and existing applications, we work with other IT groups and business units to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer on our Dell IT team in Round Rock, Texas.

 What you’ll achieve

The Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer provides middleware messaging engineering, administration and system support for new and existing production RabbitMQ and Kafka environments, including performance of the following tasks: 

Software installation, patch installation, upgrades, object definition, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, automation implementation and backup and recovery.

Work independently on day-to-day monitoring and operations of cloud and legacy applications. You will be required to develop automation using AI-assisted engineering practices. Identify opportunities to leverage AI and intelligent automation to reduce manual operational effort and accelerate service delivery.

You will:

Design, build and support enterprise large-scale distributed Messaging platforms, including software installation, patch installation, upgrading software, disaster, recovery planning, backup and recoveryLeverage AI-powered development and operational tools to accelerate troubleshooting, documentation, automation, and incident resolution

Identify and implement best practices to support a highly available platformImplement and enforce security practices for enterprise messaging platformsProvide Operational support for platform issues to application development teamsAddress performance and scalability challenges posed by new or changing Kafka producers and consumersWork in an agile global team setting  

 Essential Requirements

6 to 12 years of experience in middleware Kafka messaging, application platforms management and distributed architecture/solutionsStrong proven experience in managing RabbitMQ and Kafka for large-scale enterprise distributed systemsExperience with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Dynatrace Deep and extensive knowledge in configuration, troubleshooting, optimization of Kafka / RabbitMQProficiency with Python, shell scripts, & configuration management tools, preferably Ansible Practical experience using AI-powered development and engineering tools and solutions to improve development and operational productivity 

Desirable Requirements

Experience in applying Generative AI /Agentic AI to infrastructure operations, platform engineering, or software development workflowsFamiliarity with AI-assisted observability, incident management, operational analytics, or intelligent automation solutionsProven expertise in Kubernetes Container Orchestration and Docker ContainersExperience in messaging / streaming platforms like IBM MQ, Active MQ, Apache Flink etc. 

Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $123,200 to $169,400

Benefits and Perks of Working at Dell Technologies

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Who We Are

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