Systems Engineer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 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 Haves

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Pension Plan
• Extended maternity and paternity leaves
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• NuLanguage - Our language learning program
• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
• Vacations