Senior Software Engineer - VERA Engine & Ecosystem

About the Role: The Stream Engines & Ecosystem (SEE) team at Ververica owns VERA, an enterprise-grade stream processing engine built on Apache Flink. We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer to contribute to the design, implementation, and long-term evolution of the VERA engine and its ecosystem. You will take end-to-end ownership of non-trivial technical problems, from design proposals through production hardening.

What You'll Do

• Design and implement features in the VERA engine kernel, including runtime execution, state management, fault tolerance, and SQL/Table API.
• Contribute to ecosystem components including connectors, catalogs, CDC pipelines, and AI model integration.
• Diagnose and resolve correctness, performance, and stability issues in distributed production environments.
• Produce and review technical design documents and collaborate across platform, SRE, and product teams.

What You Bring

• Strong proficiency in Java, with a solid understanding of the JVM, concurrency, memory model, and performance tuning.
• Working knowledge of distributed systems fundamentals (consensus, replication, consistency models, failure recovery).
• Experience designing and implementing non-trivial systems-level software, with a track record of shipping production code.
• Familiarity with stream processing concepts like event time, watermarks, exactly-once semantics, and state backends.
• Bonus: Contributions to Apache Flink, Kafka, Spark, or Iceberg, and familiarity with lakehouse technologies (Parquet, Hudi, Delta Lake).

Benefits

• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge stream processing technology alongside top-tier engineers.
• Contribute to an enterprise-grade platform trusted for demanding data workloads.
• Fully remote work flexibility across Spain, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Poland, or Greece.