Platform Engineer II-Event Streaming & Messaging

Calling all originals: At Levi Strauss & Co., you can be yourself — and be part of something bigger. We’re a company of people who like to forge our own path and leave the world better than we found it. Who believe that what makes us different makes us stronger. So add your voice. Make an impact. Find your fit — and your future. Summary of the role:  The primary responsibility of this role is to engineer, operate, and continuously improve LS&Co.’s enterprise messaging and event-streaming platforms. As a member of the Event Stream squad within the APIs and Enablement organization, you will help deliver IBM MQ and Apache Kafka platform services supporting applications and workloads across Azure, Google Cloud Platform, AWS, and on-premises environments. These platforms are foundational components of LS&Co.’s broader integration architecture. They support enterprise APIs currently delivered through MuleSoft and play a central role in LS&Co.’s event-driven agentic runtime built using Temporal. This role will partner closely with teams across the organization working on the agent runtime, enterprise APIs, and application services to enable reliable event-driven communication, workflow orchestration, and system integration. This role combines platform engineering, infrastructure enablement, and production operations. Rather than developing individual application connections, the team focuses on delivering secure, reliable, scalable, and reusable platform capabilities that allow application teams to onboard and manage their integrations successfully. This opportunity provides meaningful autonomy and responsibility within a critical enterprise platform domain. You will work closely with enterprise architects, developers and engineers from domain-aligned teams, business analysts, product managers, and other platform teams to shape technical direction, establish reusable patterns, and move platform capabilities from design through production. The team works collaboratively while giving individual engineers the space to make technical decisions and take responsibility for the reliability, evolution, and impact of the capabilities they lead. About the role: Engineer, operate, and continuously improve highly available IBM MQ and Confluent Kafka platform services across cloud and on-premises environments. Build secure, scalable, reusable, and increasingly self-service platform capabilities that reduce the need for one-off integration development. Support the complete platform lifecycle, including deployment, upgrades, monitoring, incident response, problem management, disaster recovery, and capacity planning. Partner with teams working on the Temporal-based agentic runtime, enterprise APIs, MuleSoft services, and domain applications to enable reliable event-driven integration. Define reusable patterns for messaging, event streaming, connectors, schemas, routing, retries, idempotency, dead-letter handling, and recovery.