Senior Staff Engineer - Kafka

About Nubank

Nu is the world’s largest digital banking platform outside of Asia, serving over 105 million customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia. The company has been leading an industry transformation by leveraging data and proprietary technology to develop innovative products and services. Guided by its mission to fight complexity and empower people, Nu caters to customers’ complete financial journey, promoting financial access and advancement with responsible lending and transparency. The company is powered by an efficient and scalable business model that combines low cost to serve with growing returns. Nu’s impact has been recognized in multiple awards, including Time 100 Companies, Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies, and Forbes World’s Best Banks. Learn more : https : / / international.nubank.com.br / careers /

About the Role

We are opening this position in the US to find an engineer with a highly specialized skill set that is critical to our current needs. The messaging team is responsible for maintaining and operating a high-throughput messaging platform built on Apache Kafka. This system processes trillions of messages every month and underpins mission-critical, low-latency systems used across clusters. This role is critical for the future success of the product.

As Nubank rapidly expands to support billions of customers across multiple countries, over 100 financial products, and 100+ business platforms, running on infrastructure spanning over multiple AWS accounts, we face significant scalability and operational challenges. Our current infrastructure includes approximately 200 Kafka clusters, 1500 brokers, more than 200k topics, and processes 300 TB of data daily. This role will directly address challenges such as :

• Operating and managing over 200 Kafka clusters efficiently.
• Supporting and monitoring over 1 million Kafka topics.
• Handling over 1PB of data flowing through Kafka daily, ensuring minimal latency and high reliability.
• Optimizing resource utilization and controlling costs in a smart, sustainable way.
• Extending asynchronous communication patterns beyond Kafka to meet future needs.
• Maintaining performance, reliability, and containing blast radius as message volume grows exponentially.

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