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Senior Systems Engineer (Kafka)
@ Nubank
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Nubank is hiring a Senior Systems Engineer to help evolve and operate its large-scale Kafka-based messaging platform used by critical systems across the company. The work covers reliability, scalability, observability and incident response across hundreds of clusters in multiple AWS accounts. The role is full-time, hybrid with at least two office days a week, and pays CAD 156,000 to 184,000.
Responsibilities:
- Operate and improve Kafka-based messaging infrastructure
- Improve reliability, scalability and performance of platforms
- Support incident analysis and root cause remediation
- Improve observability, automation and operational excellence
- Contribute to architectural discussions on messaging
Requirements summary:
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with distributed systems
- Solid experience with Kubernetes, networking and AWS
- Experience operating high-availability infrastructure platforms
- Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues
- Experience improving observability and automation
- Nice to have: Apache Kafka or other streaming technologies
Tools & skills
Benefits mentioned
Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-10-07
- First seen by our source
- 2026-10-08
- Source record updated
- 2026-10-19
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Job details
| Seniority | Senior |
| Department | Software development |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Travel | ground: none |
| Work setting | Office |
| Position | Mostly sitting |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer high |
| Languages | English |
| Perks mentioned | Generous paid time off, Generous parental leave, Retirement plan, Wellness |
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Nubank
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Full company description
Nu is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services. Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwwzcXK2PUo
- LinkedIn followers
- 5,996,310
- People associated on LinkedIn
- 13,006
- Reported office locations
- Rua Capote Valente, São Paulo, SP, BR
- Rosenthaler Straße, Berlin, Mitte 10119, DE
- Ciudad de México, Ciudad de México 06600, MX
- Buenos Aires, Cidade Autônoma B1638 BEV, AR
- Carrera 11 # 79 - 66, Bogota, Colombia, Building Spaces, Bogotá, CO
- 101 W Chapel Hill St, Durham, North Carolina 27701, US
- Business categories
- Consumer
- Information Technology
- Banking
- Credit Cards
- FinTech
- Financial Services
- Other recorded names
- Nubank
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- Reported total investment
- 4,483,534,602
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Nu is one of the largest digital financial services platforms in the world, serving 135 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services. Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting…
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Industry | Financial Services |
| Company size | 5,001-10,000 employees |
| Headquarters | São Paulo, SP |
| Organization type | Privately Held |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 9 |
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About Nu
Nu serves more than 140 million customers, guided by a mission to fight complexity and empower people. The company has been leading an industry transformation through innovative products and human-centered services.
Proprietary technology and data at scale power Nu’s digital platform, built to promote financial access, advancement, and transparency. Its business model thrives on customer love and lower costs, feeding a flywheel of growth and profitability.
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About the Role
We are looking for an experienced software engineer to help evolve and operate Nubank’s messaging platform and the infrastructure that supports asynchronous communication at scale.
This role sits in a team responsible for highly critical platform capabilities that support a wide range of internal systems across multiple business domains and countries. The platform operates in a large and complex environment, with hundreds of clusters, thousands of brokers, hundreds of thousands of topics, and very large daily data volumes across multiple AWS accounts.
At the Senior level, we are looking for someone who can independently own important technical problems, improve reliability and operability, and drive engineering decisions in partnership with the team. Kafka experience is desirable, but not required. Strong knowledge of distributed systems infrastructure, especially Kubernetes, networking, and AWS, is essential.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
Operate and improve large-scale messaging and platform infrastructure based on Kafka used by critical systems across Nubank
Contribute to the reliability, scalability, and performance of asynchronous communication platforms
Help design and implement solutions for high-throughput, low-latency, and fault-tolerant systems
Improve observability, automation, and operational excellence across the platform
Support incident analysis, troubleshooting, and root cause remediation in production environments
Optimize infrastructure usage and help drive efficiency and cost awareness across AWS-based environments
Work on platform capabilities that enable safe growth in message volume, topic count, and cluster footprint
Partner with other engineers and teams to evolve platform standards, tooling, and best practices
Contribute to architectural discussions involving messaging, traffic patterns, service communication, and platform reliability
We Are Looking for a Person Who Has
Must-have
Strong software engineering fundamentals and experience working with distributed systems in production.
Solid experience with Kubernetes, networking, and AWS in large-scale or business-critical environments.
Experience operating infrastructure-heavy platforms with high reliability and availability requirements.
Ability to troubleshoot complex production issues across application, infrastructure, and network layers.
Experience improving observability, automation, and operational tooling.
Good understanding of scalability, resilience, performance, and failure isolation patterns.
Ability to work autonomously on ambiguous technical problems and drive them to execution.
Strong collaboration skills and ability to work across team boundaries.
Nice-to-have
Experience with Apache Kafka or other messaging and streaming technologies.
Experience with platform engineering, SRE, or infrastructure-focused backend engineering.
Familiarity with multi-account AWS environments and large-scale cloud operations.
Experience with high-throughput event-driven architectures.
Experience balancing reliability, performance, and cost in production systems.
Our Benefits
CAD 156,000 - 184,000
Health Insurance
Life Insurance
Pension Plan
Extended parental leave
Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
NuLanguage - Our language learning program
NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
Vacations
Work Model for this Role
Hybrid 2-3 times/week: Our hybrid work model brings us to the office at least twice a week, on strategic days designed to maximize team connection and collaboration. For more details, visit https://building.nubank.com/nu-hybrid-work-model/
Our recruitment process may involve the use of artificial intelligence–enabled tools, such as automated interview transcription and analysis, to support the evaluation process. Artificial intelligence is not used to make final hiring decisions; all decisions are made by human reviewers.
To maintain a consistent and fair process for every candidate, Nu does not provide individualized technical feedback. See how our policy works here
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