Kafka Platform Engineer

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer for a full-time remote position, responsible for architecting, deploying, and operating large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments to support mission-critical event-driven workloads.

Key Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform clusters across on-prem and cloud environments
• Implement strong security on Kafka clusters and operate Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, and Kafka Streams in production
• Mentor junior engineers and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for the Kafka platform

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline
• Five or more years of experience operating Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in production
• Deep, hands-on knowledge of Kafka internals and security mechanisms
• Experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and HA/DR strategies for Kafka
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go, along with hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code tools