Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer

Dell Technologies

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Work type
On-site
Location
Round Rock, TX
Salary
$123,200–$169,400 / yr
Posted
12 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Nov 27, 2026

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Below market

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About Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies is a US-based technology company that designs and sells PCs, servers, storage and networking hardware, along with related software and IT services. Its product lines include the XPS, Latitude and Alienware PCs and the PowerEdge server and PowerStore storage families.

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TL;DR · Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer

The Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer joins the IT Infrastructure team to provide middleware messaging engineering, administration, and system support for production RabbitMQ and Kafka environments. This role involves designing, building, and supporting large-scale distributed messaging platforms while managing software installations, security, monitoring, and disaster recovery planning. You will develop automation using AI-assisted engineering practices to reduce manual operational effort and accelerate service delivery. Key responsibilities include troubleshooting performance and scalability challenges for Kafka producers and consumers within an agile global team. Required technical skills include 6 to 12 years of experience with Kafka and RabbitMQ, Linux, Python, shell scripts, and Ansible. You must also possess experience with monitoring tools like Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and Dynatrace to ensure high availability for enterprise messaging systems.

What you'll do

  • Design, build, and support large-scale distributed messaging platforms using RabbitMQ and Kafka.
  • Perform software installations, patching, upgrades, configurations, and security enforcement for production environments.
  • Develop automation using AI-assisted engineering practices to reduce manual operational effort.
  • Manage disaster recovery planning, system monitoring, and backup/recovery procedures.
  • Provide operational support and troubleshooting for platform issues to application development teams.
  • Address performance and scalability challenges for Kafka producers and consumers.
  • Implement best practices to ensure high availability and security for enterprise messaging platforms.

What we're looking for

  • 6 to 12 years of experience in middleware Kafka messaging, application platforms management, and distributed architecture/solutions.
  • Strong proven experience managing RabbitMQ and Kafka for large-scale enterprise distributed systems.
  • 2 plus years of hands-on Linux experience.
  • Experience with monitoring and logging tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, and Dynatrace.
  • Deep and extensive knowledge in configuration, troubleshooting, and optimization of Kafka and RabbitMQ.
  • Proficiency with Python, shell scripts, and configuration management tools, preferably Ansible (preferred).
  • Practical experience using AI-powered development and engineering tools and solutions to improve productivity.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, IBM MQ, Active MQ, Apache Flink, or applying Generative AI to infrastructure (preferred).

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