Location: Chicago,Illinois
Expected Start Date: Mar 12, 2025
Swoon is actively seeking a Principal Middleware Engineer with a specialization in Kafka to join the team.
What your day-to-day look like? - Design, implement, and maintain robust and scalable middleware solutions on scalable Kafka clusters
- Monitor Kafka performance
- Develop and maintain IAC using Ansible and Terraform; create and maintain IAC modules
- Design and implement cloud-based infrastructure on AWS cloud
- Automate infrastructure, provisioning, deployments, and operations enabling our organization to rapidly deliver and scale applications
What's Required? - Subject matter experience in Kafka - 8+ years of experience
- IaC experience - 8+ years of experience
- 5+ years of experience in Terraform and/or Ansible
- 5+ years of experience in AWS or Azure cloud - AWS preferred
- Containerization experience highly preferred using Kubernetes or Docker
Things to Love about this company - Collaborative, supportive, team environment
- Room to grow your skills
- Excellent work/life balance
- Tuition reimbursement and technology stipend
- Competitive benefits and generous PTO policy
What else should you know? Direct-Hire/Full-time role - no contracting
Hybrid Role - 3 days a week in office
Location - Downtown Chicago, IL 60606 or Coppell, TX
Salary - $150,000 -$162,000 plus 15% annual bonus
What's Next? Apply Now. Email questions to