Software Engineer (DevOps) - Managed Storage

About RevolutPeople deserve more from their money. More visibility, more control, and more freedom. Since 2015, Revolut has been on a mission to deliver just that. Our powerhouse of products— including spending, saving, investing, exchanging, travelling, and more—help our 70+ million customers get more from their money every day.As we continue our lightning‑fast growth, 2 things are essential to our success: our people and our culture. In recognition of our outstanding employee experience, we’ve been certified as a Great Place to Work™. So far, we have 13,000+ people working around the world, from our offices and remotely, to help us achieve our mission. And we’re looking for more brilliant people. People who love building great products, redefining success, and turning the complexity of a chaotic world into the simplicity of a beautiful solution.About The RoleOur Technology team builds the systems and experiences that keep Revolut moving. From the infrastructure behind our innovative app to the features used by millions of people around the world, they bring sharp thinking, speed, and a focus on meaningful impact to everything they do.We’re looking for a Software Engineer with expertise in self‑managed storage solutions, such as Redis and Kafka, who’s excited about building and operating critical infrastructure at a global scale.Since most of our core infrastructure is designed, built, and operated internally, you’ll be developing for resilience, automation, and scale from day one.Up to shape what’s next in finance? Let’s get in touch.What You’ll Be DoingDesigning, operating, and evolving our storage solutions, such as Kafka clusters at scale, across cloud and/or on‑premise environmentsBuilding and maintaining self‑managed, highly available distributed systems (messaging, storage, data infrastructure)Architecting multi‑region deployments, failover strategies, and disaster recovery for mission‑critical systemsDeveloping infrastructure as code and internal self‑service platforms to enable engineering teams to provision and operate safely at scaleDriving automation across provisioning, scaling, upgrades, patching, and incident remediationContributing to reliability standards (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets) and improving observability across the stackWorking closely with backend, platform, security, and compliance teams to design infrastructure that meets regulatory and audit requirementsParticipating in incident response and postmortem processes, focusing on systemic improvements rather than firefightingWhat You’ll NeedExpertise operating Apache Kafka in production at scale, including cluster provisioning, lifecycle management, capacity planning, performance tuning, replication, failover, and resilience designKnowledge of security hardening (ACLs, encryption, authentication)A background in SRE, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineeringA deep understanding of distributed systems concepts (consensus, partitioning, fault tolerance, backpressure, networking)Experience with Linux, containerisation (Docker), and KubernetesExpertise with Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform) and configuration management (e.g., Ansible)Familiarity with CI/CD systems and automation pipelinesThe ability to independently design and deliver complex systems in collaboration with multiple internal stakeholdersHands‑on software engineering skillsNice to haveExperience operating other stateful systems at scale (e.g., Postgres, Redis, object storage)Knowledge of monitoring and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Stackdriver, Vector, VictoriaMetrics)Exposure to regulated environments or financial systemsExperience operating infrastructure across cloud (GCP/AWS) and on‑premise environmentsImportant notice for candidatesJob scams are on the rise. Please keep these guidelines in mind when applying for any open roles.Only apply through official Revolut channels. We don’t use any third‑party services or platforms for our recruitment.Always double‑check the emails you receive. Make sure all communications are being done through official Revolut emails, with an @revolut.com domain.We won’t ask for payment or personal financial information during the hiring process. If anyone does ask you for this, it’s a scam. Report it immediately.By submitting this application, I confirm that all the information given by me in this application for employment and any additional documents attached hereto are true to the best of my knowledge and that I have not willfully suppressed any material fact. I confirm I have disclosed if applicable any previous employment with Revolut. I accept that if any of the information given by me in this application is in any way false or incorrect, my application may be rejected, any offer of employment may be withdrawn or my employment with Revolut may be terminated summarily or I may be dismissed. By submitting this application, I agree that my personal data will be processed in accordance with Revolut’s Candidate Priv