Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer
US$123,000 / yr base salary
Posted 15 Oct 2026
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- Expected experience
- 6–12 yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Employment
- On-Site
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Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer
The ability to drive human progress through technology relies on robust and reliable IT infrastructure – and that’s what our IT Infrastructure team provides to our customers. We’re a team of experts optimizing the performance and integrity of IT infrastructure and ensuring consistency and synchronization across all infrastructure components. In addition to supporting new and existing applications, we work with other IT groups and business units to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues.
Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer on our Dell IT team in Round Rock, Texas.
What you’ll achieve
The Messaging and Streaming Platform Engineer provides middleware messaging engineering, administration and system support for new and existing production RabbitMQ and Kafka environments, including performance of the following tasks:
Software installation, patch installation, upgrades, object definition, configuration, security, system monitoring and tuning, disaster recovery planning, automation implementation and backup and recovery.
Work independently on day-to-day monitoring and operations of cloud and legacy applications. You will be required to develop automation using AI-assisted engineering practices. Identify opportunities to leverage AI and intelligent automation to reduce manual operational effort and accelerate service delivery.
You will:
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Design, build and support enterprise large-scale distributed Messaging platforms, including software installation, patch installation, upgrading software, disaster, recovery planning, backup and recovery
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Leverage AI-powered development and operational tools to accelerate troubleshooting, documentation, automation, and incident resolution
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Identify and implement best practices to support a highly available platform
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Implement and enforce security practices for enterprise messaging platforms
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Provide Operational support for platform issues to application development teams
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Address performance and scalability challenges posed by new or changing Kafka producers and consumers
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Work in an agile global team setting
Essential Requirements
- 6 to 12 years of experience in middleware Kafka messaging, application platforms management and distributed architecture/solutions