Senior data engineer (Apache Flink)Are you the right candidate for this opportunity Make sure to read the full description below.Role overviewYou will bring deep hands-on expertise in production Flink on AWS, working closely with a senior FT engineerand AWS stakeholders. A key part of the role is knowledge transfer through pairing, reviews and cleardocumentation so the capability can be supported and extended by FT.Responsibilities Design and implement stateful stream-processing jobs in Apache Flink (primarily Java), to process userinteraction events and produce near real-time outputs for downstream services. Integrate Flink with Kafka/AWS MSK, S3 and the chosen online store (MongoDB/MongoDB Atlas). Own streaming non-functional requirements: correctness, fault tolerance, checkpointing/recovery,backpressure handling, and performance tuning. Define and implement production readiness: observability (metrics/logs/tracing), alerting, dashboardsand runbooks. Support CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code practices to deploy and operate Flink workloads safely in AWS. Enable the team via knowledge transfer (pairing, design/code reviews, documentation and handover).Skills and experienceEssential Strong experience building and operating production Apache Flink applications (event-time concepts,windows/watermarks, state, checkpointing and fault tolerance). Hands-on AWS experience operating streaming/data workloads (IAM, networking/VPC basics,deployment, observability and incident troubleshooting). Experience integrating Flink with Kafka (including AWS MSK) and cloud services/storage (e.g., S3). Highly proficient in Java and Python (production experience required). Strong software engineering fundamentals: clean, maintainable code; pragmatic testing; effective codereview. Comfort mentoring/pairing with engineers to up-skill the team.Desirable Experience with Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink and/or running Flink on EKS/ECS. Experience with MongoDB or MongoDB Atlas for low-latency, online-serving use cases. xjdpvnf Infrastructure-as-code (CloudFormation) and modern observability tooling (CloudWatch, Grafana,OpenTelemetry, Splunk).
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Senior Data Engineer (Flink)