Site Reliability Engineer, Core Streaming

Yelp

Site Reliability Engineer maintaining Kafka clusters in fully remote role. Ensuring operational health of streaming infrastructure with teamwork and troubleshooting.

Posted 7/8/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 CA$135,000 - CA$185,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AnsibleApacheAWSCloudDistributed SystemsJavaKafkaLinuxPuppetPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the reliability, scalability, and operational health of Kafka clusters across multi-cloud and hybrid environments
Build and maintain automation for cluster operations, upgrades, capacity scaling, and incident recovery
Partner with engineering teams to enable new streaming use cases, advise on best practices, and ensure data pipeline reliability
Troubleshoot complex issues affecting data flow, performance, or stability, and lead root cause analyses
Execute Kafka version upgrades and platform migrations with minimal disruption to critical services
Participate in on-call rotations.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Solid SRE or infrastructure engineering foundation: experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, or equivalent), cloud platforms (AWS preferred), and Linux operations
Production level experience with Kafka or similar technologies at scale including cluster upgrades, migrations, and capacity planning
Programming proficiency in Python, Java, or similar for tooling and automation
Strong debugging and systems-thinking skills, comfortable tracing data flow issues end-to-end across distributed systems
Nice to Have: Experience with Apache Flink or other stream processing frameworks, Familiarity with Kafka Client APIs (Producer, Consumer, Streams), Experience building internal self-service tooling or developer platforms, Experience with incident response and management.

Benefits

Comp & perks

There are a variety of factors that go into determining a compensation range, including but not limited to external market benchmark data and years of experience.
The actual compensation offered may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s experience and skill set.
There may be flexibility with the range included in this posting should a candidate be leveled higher or lower than the posted range.
This opportunity has the option to be fully remote in all locations across Canada.

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Hard Skills & Tools

KafkaInfrastructure-As-CodeConfiguration ManagementLinux OperationsCluster UpgradesMigrationsCapacity PlanningPython ProgrammingJava ProgrammingIncident Response

Soft Skills

Problem-SolvingCollaborationRoot Cause Analysis