Kafka Platform Engineer

Job Summary

Seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer, the full-time remote position will architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments, ensuring reliable and efficient 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 related components such as Schema Registry and Kafka Connect in production
• Mentor junior engineers and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for system support and onboarding

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 including partitions, replication, and consumer groups
• Strong experience with Kafka security mechanisms such as SASL, mTLS, ACLs, and RBAC
• Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect and either Kafka Streams or ksqlDB