{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"f90e573bb6bdf97c969bd40e","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f90e573bb6bdf97c969bd40e","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/f90e573bb6bdf97c969bd40e","title":"Kafka Engineer","description":"Kafka Engineer - Remote\n\nBright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.\nThis is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.\n\nJob Title: Kafka Engineer\nLocation: 100% Remote (U.S.)\nPosition Type: Full-time, Direct W2\nSalary Range: $100,000–$150,000 Annually\nExperience Required: 6+ years\n\nSponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.\n\nJob Summary:\nWe are seeking an experienced Kafka Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments supporting mission-critical event-driven workloads. In this role you will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement. The ideal candidate will combine deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps and SRE practices, and will partner with application teams to deliver a reliable, performant, and developer-friendly streaming platform. In this role you will work closely with cross-functional partners — product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders — to translate ambiguous requirements into well-engineered solutions, and will be expected to raise the bar through code review, design review, and mentorship of more junior engineers. The successful candidate brings strong engineering discipline, a clear communication style, and a track record of shipping meaningful work that holds up well in production.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform clusters across on-prem and cloud environments.\nDesign partitioning, replication, and topic strategies that balance throughput, durability, and operational simplicity.\nImplement strong security on Kafka clusters using SASL, mTLS, ACLs, RBAC, and integration with corporate IdPs.\nOperate Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, KSQL/ksqlDB, and Kafka Streams in production.\nBuild and operate Kafka Connect pipelines integrating sources and sinks across enterprise systems.\nDesign HA/DR strategies for Kafka, including MirrorMaker 2, Cluster Linking, and multi-region active-active patterns.\nBuild CI/CD pipelines for Kafka topic, ACL, and connector configurations using GitOps patterns.\nImplement comprehensive observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Confluent Control Center.\nDrive Kafka cost and capacity optimization through right-sizing and storage tiering.\nOnboard application teams to Kafka with clear patterns, templates, and best practices.\nLead incident response and post-incident reviews for streaming workloads, applying disciplined engineering practices and partnering closely with stakeholders to ensure outcomes are durable, well-documented, and aligned with broader team and platform standards.\nMentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design review, pair programming, and structured knowledge sharing, helping the broader team grow in technical maturity and confidence over time.\nMaintain comprehensive, current technical documentation — including architecture diagrams, design decisions, configuration references, runbooks, and operational procedures — so that the system remains supportable, auditable, and easy to onboard new engineers onto over time.\nContinuously evaluate emerging streaming technologies (Pulsar, Redpanda, AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs).\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.\nFive or more years of experience operating Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in production.\nDeep, hands-on knowledge of Kafka internals (partitions, replication, ISRs, consumer groups).\nStrong experience with Kafka security (SASL, mTLS, ACLs, RBAC).\nHands-on experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and either Kafka Streams or ksqlDB.\nExperience with HA/DR strategies for Kafka.\nStrong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.\nHands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible).\nWorking knowledge of observability tooling for Kafka.\nExcellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nConfluent Certified Administrator or Developer credentials.\nExperience operating Kafka on Kubernetes (Strimzi, Confluent Operator).\nExposure to managed Kafka services (AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs Kafka API).\nFamiliarity with stream processing frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming).\nExperience with data governance and lineage for streaming data.\nHow to Apply\nWould you like to know more about this opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume to venkat.r@bvteck.com or contact us at (908) 505-3899. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com\nBright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement\nBright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.\nBV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. 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We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.\n\nJob Summary:\nWe are seeking an experienced Kafka Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments supporting mission-critical event-driven workloads. In this role you will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement. The ideal candidate will combine deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps and SRE practices, and will partner with application teams to deliver a reliable, performant, and developer-friendly streaming platform. In this role you will work closely with cross-functional partners — product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders — to translate ambiguous requirements into well-engineered solutions, and will be expected to raise the bar through code review, design review, and mentorship of more junior engineers. The successful candidate brings strong engineering discipline, a clear communication style, and a track record of shipping meaningful work that holds up well in production.\n\nKey Responsibilities\nArchitect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform clusters across on-prem and cloud environments.\nDesign partitioning, replication, and topic strategies that balance throughput, durability, and operational simplicity.\nImplement strong security on Kafka clusters using SASL, mTLS, ACLs, RBAC, and integration with corporate IdPs.\nOperate Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, KSQL/ksqlDB, and Kafka Streams in production.\nBuild and operate Kafka Connect pipelines integrating sources and sinks across enterprise systems.\nDesign HA/DR strategies for Kafka, including MirrorMaker 2, Cluster Linking, and multi-region active-active patterns.\nBuild CI/CD pipelines for Kafka topic, ACL, and connector configurations using GitOps patterns.\nImplement comprehensive observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Confluent Control Center.\nDrive Kafka cost and capacity optimization through right-sizing and storage tiering.\nOnboard application teams to Kafka with clear patterns, templates, and best practices.\nLead incident response and post-incident reviews for streaming workloads, applying disciplined engineering practices and partnering closely with stakeholders to ensure outcomes are durable, well-documented, and aligned with broader team and platform standards.\nMentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design review, pair programming, and structured knowledge sharing, helping the broader team grow in technical maturity and confidence over time.\nMaintain comprehensive, current technical documentation — including architecture diagrams, design decisions, configuration references, runbooks, and operational procedures — so that the system remains supportable, auditable, and easy to onboard new engineers onto over time.\nContinuously evaluate emerging streaming technologies (Pulsar, Redpanda, AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs).\nRequired Qualifications\nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.\nFive or more years of experience operating Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in production.\nDeep, hands-on knowledge of Kafka internals (partitions, replication, ISRs, consumer groups).\nStrong experience with Kafka security (SASL, mTLS, ACLs, RBAC).\nHands-on experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and either Kafka Streams or ksqlDB.\nExperience with HA/DR strategies for Kafka.\nStrong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.\nHands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible).\nWorking knowledge of observability tooling for Kafka.\nExcellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.\nPreferred Qualifications\nConfluent Certified Administrator or Developer credentials.\nExperience operating Kafka on Kubernetes (Strimzi, Confluent Operator).\nExposure to managed Kafka services (AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs Kafka API).\nFamiliarity with stream processing frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming).\nExperience with data governance and lineage for streaming data.\nHow to Apply\nWould you like to know more about this opportunity? For immediate consideration, please send your resume to venkat.r@bvteck.com or contact us at (908) 505-3899. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com\nBright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.\n\nEqual Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement\nBright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.\nBV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. 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