Platform Engineer II-Event Streaming & Messaging

Overview

Platform Engineer II in the Event Stream squad, engineering, operating and continuously improving LS&Co.'s enterprise messaging and event-streaming platforms (IBM MQ and Apache Kafka) that support enterprise APIs and the event-driven agentic runtime built on Temporal.

What you'll do

• Engineer, operate, and continuously improve highly available IBM MQ and Confluent Kafka platform services across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Build secure, scalable, reusable, and increasingly self-service platform capabilities that reduce the need for one-off integration development.
• Support the complete platform lifecycle, including deployment, upgrades, monitoring, incident response, problem management, disaster recovery, and capacity planning.
• Partner with teams working on the Temporal-based agentic runtime, enterprise APIs, MuleSoft services, and domain applications to enable reliable event-driven integration.
• Define reusable patterns for messaging, event streaming, connectors, schemas, routing, retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling, and recovery.
• Apply Domain-Driven Design principles, including bounded contexts, domain events, and explicit integration contracts, to platform and solution designs.
• Develop platform automation, observability, alerting, operational tooling, and technical documentation.
• Facilitate platform onboarding through standards, documentation, consultation, and troubleshooting.
• Lead root-cause analysis and improvements to platform reliability, security, performance, scalability, and developer experience.
• Take ownership of assigned platform capabilities while collaborating closely with architects, engineers, product managers, and other stakeholders.

What you'll need

• 6+ years of experience in software, integration, infrastructure, or platform engineering.
• 4+ years of recent experience designing, implementing, administering, or operating IBM MQ in production environments.
• 1+ years of experience implementing or operating Apache Kafka, preferably Confluent Kafka.
• Experience supporting highly available, business-critical platforms as part of a platform, middleware, infrastructure, or site-reliability team.
• Experience with Linux or Unix and cloud infrastructure in Azure, Google Cloud Platform, or AWS.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture, distributed systems, enterprise messaging, resiliency, networking, security, and performance management.
• Strong production troubleshooting and root-cause analysis experience, with the ability to make sound technical decisions within an area of ownership.
• Must be able to collaborate effectively with North American and India-based teams.

Nice to have

• Multi-cloud experience.
• Experience with automation, infrastructure as code, configuration management, or CI/CD.
• Experience applying Domain-Driven Design principles to events, integrations, or service boundaries.
• Familiarity with Temporal, MuleSoft, enterprise API platforms, or workflow orchestration.

Details

• Location: GCC Office, ITC Green Center, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
• Full-time position.
• Production responsibilities may include scheduled maintenance, incident response, or participation in an on-call rotation.
• Requires working at a computer or video-display terminal for more than 75% of the working day.