Gojek - Senior Software Engineer - Event Platform

About The Role

The Events Platform team at Gojek provides Kafka and its ecosystem as a managed service to enable event-driven architecture across our products. The team ensures a scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly platform to support real-time messaging and data streaming needs across all Gojek applications.

The platform you are building is designed to power diverse applications across Gojek’s many business lines. Your expertise will be crucial in delivering a reliable, cost-effective, and enjoyable experience for the developers using our platform. If you enjoy creating tools for fellow developers and are comfortable dealing with high scale and complex distributed systems - this role will be a great fit.

What You Will Do

• Architect and drive the evolution of Apache Kafka infrastructure in a large-scale, multi-cloud environment, ensuring global availability, resiliency, data integrity, and low-latency messaging across business-critical systems
• Design and implement scalable frameworks and platform-level abstractions for Kafka producers and consumers, setting technical direction and enforcing consistency, observability, and governance across engineering teams
• Implement automation frameworks for end-to-end platform operations including provisioning, elastic scaling, cross-AZ/cross-region failover, backup/restore with minimal human intervention
• Define and enforce SLOs/SLAs for event streaming services utilizing inhouse observability tooling
• Own the strategy and delivery of self-service capabilities (e.g., Kafka topic lifecycle APIs, access control workflows, usage dashboards) to empower product teams while maintaining compliance, security, and operational excellence
• Influence and guide architecture decisions across the organization for event-driven systems, acting as a subject matter expert in Kafka performance tuning, schema evolution, message delivery semantics, and distributed system patterns
• Drive the infrastructure-as-code strategy using Terraform, Helm, and Kubernetes operators, ensuring platform reproducibility, auditability, and environment parity across staging and production
  
  

What You Will Need

• Atleast 4-5+ years of relevant experience in building applications from scratch, with proficiency in an object oriented or functional programming language (e.g. Java, Golang, Clojure, Python, Ruby etc)
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, event driven systems (Kafka and its ecosystem) and the ability to troubleshoot issues in a large-scale infrastructure
• First hand experience working with Kafka or any other message queue at a good scale
• Hands-on experience with container orchestration and cloud native infrastructure technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker
• Strong domain modeling skills and the ability to build RESTFul web services
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure as Code tools, including Terraform and Helm
• Prior experience with cloud platforms (e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure) is a plus
• Exposure to service mesh and proxy technologies, such as Envoy, is a plus
  
  

About The Team

We are the heart of Gojek, the group that owns, improves, and manages Gojek's engineering productivity across the board. We are responsible for the pillars of technology, science, and strategy across engineering, powering over 500+ microservices at Gojek. We leverage cutting edge technology in cloud computing managing real time high throughput systems with a wide range of programming stack. At the productivity team, we solve for the happiness of our customers who are Gojek Product Engineers. We do what we do by designing abstractions and automations.

You are directly responsible for improving engineering quality and productivity and experience of engineers driving fundamental business KPI for the company.

About GoTo Group

GoTo Group is the largest digital ecosystem in Indonesia with its mission to “Empower Progress’ by offering technological infrastructure and solutions for everyone to access and thrive in the digital economy. The GoTo ecosystem consists of on-demand transportation services, food and grocery delivery, logistics and fulfillment, as well as financial and payment services through the Gojek and GoTo Financial platforms.It is the first platform in Southeast Asia that hosts these crucial cases in a single ecosystem, capturing the majority of Indonesia’s vast consumer household.

About Gojek

Gojek is Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand platform and pioneer of the multi-service ecosystem with over 2.5 million driver partners across the regions offering a wide range of services such as transportation, food delivery, logistics and more. With its mission to create impact at scale, Gojek is committed to resolving consumer problems and raising standards of living by connecting consumers to the best providers of goods and services in the market.

About GoTo Financial

GoTo Financial accelerates financial inclusion through its leading financial services and merchants solutions. Its consumer services include GoPay and GoPayLater and serve businesses of all sizes through Midtrans, Moka, GoBiz Plus, GoBiz, and Selly. With its trusted and inclusive ecosystem of products, GoTo Financial is open to new growth opportunities and aims to empower everyone to Make It Happen, Make It Together, Make It Last.

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