NICE Ltd.

Senior Software Engineer - Data Team (AWS, Flink, OpenSearch)

NICE Ltd.$120K — $150K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience with Kafka administration and distributed streaming systems
  • Strong AWS cloud services experience, particularly with MSK and Kinesis
  • Proficiency in Linux administration, automation, and scripting
  • Experience in Python for platform reliability engineering
  • Interest in learning and implementing new technologies

Responsibilities

  • Administer and optimize Kafka, AWS MSK, Kinesis, and OpenSearch platforms
  • Design scalable and secure streaming architectures
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and performance-tune distributed systems
  • Implement security controls, automation, and operational best practices
  • Support integrations with data lakes and analytics platforms
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or similar tools
  • Leverage AI-assisted development tools to enhance productivity

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a diverse, globally distributed team
  • Engagement with cutting-edge AI-assisted engineering technologies
  • Focused on high availability and reliability of large-scale streaming platforms
  • Room for professional growth and skill enhancement through new technology implementation
  • Access to a collaborative environment fostering real-time data solutions
Full Job Description
We are seeking a Senior Streaming Platform Engineer (6+ years) with deep expertise in enterprise-scale streaming and cloud data platforms. Based in Atlanta, this role collaborates closely with teams in Salt Lake City and Pune, with reasonable overlapping hours. The ideal candidate brings hands-on experience managing scalable, secure, and highly available streaming ecosystems that support real-time analytics, event-driven architectures, and enterprise data platforms - including exposure to AI-assisted engineering and automation practices.
What You'll Do
  • Administer, optimize, and govern Kafka, AWS MSK, Kinesis, Kafka Connect, and OpenSearch platforms
  • Design scalable, fault-tolerant, and secure streaming architectures
  • Monitor, troubleshoot, and performance-tune distributed systems; drive capacity planning
  • Implement security controls, automation, and operational best practices
  • Support integrations with data lakes, Snowflake, analytics platforms, and downstream systems
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning using Terraform or similar IaC tools
  • Leverage AI-assisted development tools (Claude or equivalent) to improve engineering productivity and platform automation
  • Collaborate with engineering and analytics teams to enable real-time data processing and AI-driven data solutions
What We're Looking For

Required:
  • 6+ years of experience with Kafka administration and distributed streaming systems
  • Strong AWS cloud services experience (MSK, Kinesis, and related services)

in OpenSearch
  • Linux administration and automation/scripting skills
  • Python development and platform reliability engineering
  • Desire to learn and implement evolving and new technologies

Preferred:
  • Experience with Flink using Spring Boot
  • Snowflake integration experience
  • Kubernetes orchestration
  • Administration knowledge in OpenSearch clusters
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled engineering workflows and tools
What Success Looks Like
  • Streaming platforms operate with high availability, performance, and reliability at enterprise scale
  • Governance, security, and automation practices are consistently applied across the ecosystem
  • Engineering teams are unblocked and empowered through well-integrated data pipelines and real-time infrastructure
  • AI tooling meaningfully improves operational efficiency and engineering velocity


About NICE Ltd.

NICE Ltd. is an Israel-based company, specializing in telephone voice recording, data security, surveillance, and Robotic Process Automation as well as systems that analyze recorded data. The company serves various industries, such as financial services, telecommunications, healthcare, outsourcers, retail, media, travel, service providers, and utilities. The primary listing of the company's shares is on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange; where it is part of the TA-35 Index. Barak Eilam became CEO in April 2014, replacing Zeevi Bregman. Eilam previously headed the company's Americas division. As of November, 2020 the company had ~6,800 employees. NICE was founded in 1986 as Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering by 7 Israeli former army colleagues. The company initially focused on developing technology for security and defense applications, but soon refocused their efforts on civilian applications, mainly for contact center, financial services and business intelligence markets.
Learn more about NICE Ltd.
Size
7,102 employees
Market Cap
$12.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$196.6 million
Founded
2000
5 Year Trend
+13.6%
Revenue
$1.6 billion
NASDAQ

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