Why Verifone

For more than 30 years, Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.

Verifone has a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness.

Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets, the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners, and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success.

Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located.

What’s Exciting About the Role

Verifone is seeking a Kafka DevOps Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. This is an operations-first role with a strong emphasis on scripting, automation, and pipeline development. You’ll be hands-on with day-to-day Kafka operations, reliability, tuning, and high availability for payment gateway solutions that process billions of transactions annually on-prem and in AWS Cloud. Beyond keeping the lights on, you’ll play a key role in building the data pipelines—of which Kafka is a core component—that power Verifone’s new AI, machine learning, and analytics initiatives. You’ll also be part of an active effort to migrate Kafka and related services to Kubernetes, giving you hands-on experience with a meaningful infrastructure modernization project. The technology footprint is broad: Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, and more—so you’ll grow well beyond a single-technology niche.

Key Responsibilities

Kafka Operations & Reliability

• Manage and support Apache Kafka clusters (including MSK), Kafka Connect ecosystem, and KSQL for high-throughput, fault-tolerant messaging and event streaming pipelines.
• Monitor system health, set up alerts, and drive incident response and root cause analysis (RCA).
• Handle day-to-day operational tasks including offset management, lag monitoring, consumer group management, and cluster rebalancing.
• Perform routine cluster maintenance: upgrades, configuration changes, scaling, and health checks.

Scripting, Automation & DevOps

• Develop and manage automation scripts using Python and Shell scripting to reduce manual toil and improve operational efficiency.
• Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines for patching automation.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Containerize and orchestrate workloads using Docker and Kubernetes, with the opportunity to help migrate Kafka and related services to Kubernetes.

Data Pipeline Development

• Build and optimize end-to-end data pipelines, with Kafka as a core streaming component alongside batch and ETL processes, enabling new AI, ML, and analytics use cases.
• Collaborate with development teams to implement best practices for data flow, security, scalability, and performance.
• Continuously identify and implement improvements to the software development lifecycle (SDLC).

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Manage cloud infrastructure on AWS (VMs, networking, storage, IAM, etc.).
• Support cloud migration tasks and assist in moving workloads between on-prem and cloud environments.

Required Qualifications / Skills

• 4+ years of overall engineering experience with 2+ years of hands-on experience supporting Kafka infrastructure in a large-scale production environment.
• Kafka Producer/Consumer microservices concepts and Kafka distributed architecture.
• Solid Linux fundamentals: networking basics, logs, system troubleshooting, process/memory, disk.
• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash) with a track record of reducing operational toil.
• CI/CD pipeline development and Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform preferred).
• Cloud engineering skills, preferably AWS (EC2, VPC, IAM, MSK/ElastiCache, CloudWatch).
• Familiarity with observability tools (metrics/logs/tracing concepts) and incident response practices.
• Basic understanding of distributed systems tradeoffs (availability, consistency, partitions, backpressure).
• Strong communication and presentation skills with emphasis on executive communication.
• Flexible with regards to working shifts; on-call and weekends.

Preferred Skills (Highly Desired)

Data Engineering & Pipelines

• Data engineering skills including data analytics, data processing, ETL, and data lake technologies (batch and streaming, file formats like Parquet, table formats like Iceberg/Delta/Hudi, basic orchestration).
• Experience with AWS data tools (Athena, Glue, Iceberg, Redshift, etc.).
• Exposure to Kafka Streams, Apache Flink, or similar stream processing frameworks.

Database & Caching Technologies

• Operate Redis deployments for caching, ephemeral state, queues/streams, and rate limiting use cases.
• Relational DB experience: PostgreSQL and/or MySQL (indexing basics, vacuum/analyze, query plans, replication fundamentals).
• MongoDB operational familiarity (replica sets, elections, oplog basics, backup/restore).

Infrastructure & Security

• Container/Kubernetes familiarity (deployments, stateful workloads, storage classes).
• On-prem experience (VMware/KVM, storage, networking).
• Security fundamentals: least privilege, secrets management, encryption-in-transit/at-rest concepts.
• Experience working with PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security) standards.

What We Offer

• Direct impact on Verifone’s global payment infrastructure—your work keeps billions of transactions flowing reliably every year.
• Ground-floor involvement in building the data pipelines that will drive Verifone’s AI, machine learning, and analytics strategy.
• Hands-on participation in a Kafka-to-Kubernetes migration—a resume-building modernization project from day one.
• Multi-technology exposure—Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake—so you grow as a well-rounded platform engineer, not a single-tool specialist.
• Mentorship from senior engineers and Kafka architects with deep production experience.
• Clear career progression path from mid-level to senior and lead engineer.
• Funded certification paths—Confluent (CCDAK, Certified Administrator), AWS (Solutions Architect, MSK Specialty), CKA—plus budget for courses and technical conferences.
• Hybrid/remote working flexibility with a collaborative team culture.
• Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives.

Our Commitment

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

Why Verifone

For more than 30 years, Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone is one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and among the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide.

Verifone has a diverse, dynamic, and fast-paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in working with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third-party partners to invent and deliver innovative payment solutions around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services and are obsessed with customer happiness.

Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next generation of secure payment systems or finding new ways to bring electronic payments to emerging markets, the Verifone team is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners, and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives every Verifone employee toward personal and professional success.

Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located.

What's Exciting About the Role

Verifone is seeking an experienced MySQL Lead DBA who will be responsible for ensuring database performance, high availability, and security of clusters and single instances of MySQL instances. You will also be responsible for orchestrating upgrades, backups, HA/DR, and provisioning database instances. You will work closely with other teams, including application architects/ Sr. Developers and application support engineers for architecture design and SQL optimization, establishing and documenting best practices.

We look for dedicated and versatile engineers who are passionate about working in a company whose culture is dedicated to delivering innovative software products that solve our customers’ most challenging business needs. As a Lead DBA, you’ll have the opportunity to make significant and direct impact on our database performance, applications, and solve some of the most complex challenges in cloud and on prem environments, while lead the team from a technical and development perspective.

This hybrid role is open to hiring candidates located in:

• Bucharest, Romania
• London, United Kingdom
• Riga, Lativa
• Warsaw, Poland

Key Responsibilities

You will be responsible for ensuring that database management policies, processes and procedures are established and followed, adhering to ITIL good practice principles and are subjected to continuous improvement as per PCI standards. They will be responsible for reviewing system design changes to ensure they adhere to expected service standards and recommend changes to ensure maximum stability, availability and efficiency of the supported applications.

The candidate should understand the application functionality, business logics and work with application stake holders to understand the requirement and discuss with the new application features and propose the right solutions. He must liaise closely and work in collaboration with the release management teams, support teams and the infrastructure DBAs. 

• Design, Install, Deploy and Manage MySQL on Physical, Virtual, AWS EC2 / RDS / Aurora.
• Build MySQL clusters with a high availability, active-active cluster setup in a large scale and multi datacenter environments having minimum RPO/RTO on a DR scenario
• Design and implement uniform backup strategy and business continuity plans across the MySQL environments using Percona XtraDB or custom automation scripts with reliable monitoring and alerting mechanisms
• Define thorough and validated database monitoring and alerting, along with documentation for future references
• Setup high availability with Master-Master/ Master-slave replication
• Maintain stable performance via server optimizations
• Guide engineering teams to best practices on server configurations and SQL tuning.
• Maintain security and compliance via OS and database version upgrades
• Work with application stake holders to create effective database solutions
• Create and maintain adhoc reports
• Adhere to the incident and change process, prepare thorough documentation, and peer review planned production tasks
• Support application release process, and automations
• Mentor and develop other engineers on MySQL skills

Required Qualifications/Skills

• Minimum 8 years of experience managing MySQL
• Experience with MySQL Active/Active cluster setup, Database Upgrade and Migrations, Scripting
• Experience administrating MySQL on Linux platform
• Experience with MySQL version upgrades in production environments with a zero or very minimum application down time
• Experience with design & architecting MySQL environments using any framework such as Galera Cluster or Percona XtraDB
• Experience deploying database monitoring using at least one of PMM, New Relic, Datadog, Nagios, Grafana, ELK, AppD, etc.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef
• Proficiency with cloud infrastructure, AWS RDS or equivalent.
• Automation/scripting skills in a modern language like Python, Shell scripting, Go, Java, Rust.
• Proficiency in CI/CD pipelines such as Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab.
• Advanced experience with database performance tuning including SQL tuning, hardware configuration and capacity planning.
• Strong technical leadership, mentoring and time management skills.

Preferred Skills (Not Mandatory)

• Experience working with PCI (Payment Card Industry Data Security) standards
• ITIL environment experience
• Deep experience with SQL, stored procedures, functions, triggers, batch jobs, reporting, analytics.
• Experience managing PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and/or Oracle.
• Experience and knowledge with NoSQL and data engineering technologies such as Kafka, Redis, Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Redshift, ETL, etc.
• Experience with data analytics and Business intelligence

Our Commitment

Verifone is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Verifone is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.