Remote Senior Devops Engineer at Cheqpay.mx

About the Role

This role is full-time, and is suitable for remote work. As a Senior DevOps Engineer at Cheqpay, you will work on developing cutting-edge payment solutions some of Mexico’s largest businesses depend on daily. You will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing a robust Kafka-based messaging infrastructure that serves as the communication backbone across critical backend services for our core payment processor.

You will be able to contribute to a fast paced team that regularly ships new products that are used by millions of users. You'll be expected to collaborate closely with the company’s founders, contribute to the architecture and design of our platforms, and ensure the delivery of high-quality, scalable software.

Required Skills

Automating the deployment, management, and operations of complex distributed systems with Apache Kafka.
Implement tracing and performance observability in high scale distributed microservice architectures.
Design and manage scalable, high-throughput, and low-latency Kafka clusters for real-time data streaming between services.
Build and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) for Kafka and related services using Terraform, Ansible, or similar tools.
Monitor and optimize Kafka performance, ensuring message reliability and minimal downtime in a high-availability payment environment.
Set up and maintain centralized observability systems for logs, metrics, and traces across all services using Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and microservices using tools such as GitHub Actions, and Jenkins.
Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, ensuring scalability, and automated rollouts/rollbacks in production
Collaborate with backend engineers, SREs, and platform teams to implement Kafka producers/consumers that integrate cleanly with payment processing flows.
Establish security, access control, and encryption protocols for Kafka to meet regulatory and compliance standards (e.g., PCI DSS).
Lead Kafka upgrades, partition strategy design, and rebalancing without disrupting critical microservices.
Implement observability tooling for Kafka (e.g., Confluent Control Center, Prometheus/Grafana, or Datadog integrations).
Develop disaster recovery and failover strategies for Kafka-related components in production.
Participate in incident response processes for Kafka-related outages.
Strong communication skills in both English and Spanish.