Senior Middleware Engineer

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Middleware Engineer to own the design, deployment, performance and reliability of our enterprise messaging platforms. You will act as the technical authority for RabbitMQ, Redis and Azure Service Bus, guiding integration across development, DevOps and cloud teams.

Key responsibilities

• Architect, deploy and operate RabbitMQ, Redis and Azure Service Bus in all environments.
• Design event‑driven integration patterns such as pub/sub, saga, dead‑letter handling and request‑reply.
• Lead performance tuning, HA/DR configuration and disaster‑recovery strategies for each platform.
• Establish observability using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus/Grafana and alerting for queue depth, consumer lag and error rates.
• Define message schema standards (JSON, Avro, Protobuf) and enforce versioning and compatibility.
• Drive Infrastructure‑as‑Code provisioning with Terraform, Bicep or Ansible and integrate middleware into CI/CD pipelines.
• Own security posture: TLS, certificate management, RBAC/ACL and Managed Identity authentication.
• Lead incident response for severity‑1 outages and produce post‑mortem remediation plans.
• Mentor junior engineers and produce architecture decision records, runbooks and documentation.

Required profile

• Senior‑level professional with deep expertise in enterprise messaging and distributed systems.
• Proven ability to act as a technical authority and mentor engineering teams.
• Strong problem‑solving skills for performance, reliability and security challenges.

Required skills

• RabbitMQ (AMQP 0‑9‑1, exchanges, queues, quorum/stream queues).
• Redis (Cluster, Sentinel, eviction policies).
• Azure Service Bus (namespaces, geo‑redundancy, Managed Identity).
• Message schema formats: JSON, Avro, Protobuf.
• Observability tools: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana.
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code: Terraform, Bicep, Ansible.
• CI/CD pipeline integration and automated testing.
• Security mechanisms: TLS, RBAC/ACL, certificate management.