Senior Apache Kafka Engineer - Real-Time Streaming & Scale

BairesDev; Comunidad de Madrid; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent compensation in USD or local currency

Paid parental leave

Vacation and national holidays

Innovative and multicultural work environment

Mentorship and skill development opportunities

Job summary

A technology services company is seeking a Staff Apache Kafka Engineer in Spain to enhance distributed data processing systems and real-time analytics. The ideal candidate should have over 10 years of software development experience, expertise in Apache Kafka, and a strong background in distributed systems. Responsibilities include contributing to open source projects and optimizing event streaming platforms. The position offers excellent compensation, benefits, and a multicultural work environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software development.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems and large-scale event streaming platforms.
• Understanding of Apache Kafka architecture, including topics, partitions, and consumer groups.
• Proficiency in Java and Scala.
• Experience in performance tuning of distributed systems at scale.
• Core contributions to Apache open source projects (Kafka, Spark, Flink, or similar).
• Advanced level of English.

Responsibilities

• Contribute actively to Apache Kafka and related open source projects as a core contributor.
• Develop and optimize event streaming platforms for high-throughput message processing.
• Build streaming analytics capabilities using Kafka Streams and integration with Apache Spark.
• Enhance Kafka cluster performance, topic configurations, and producer/consumer optimization.
• Collaborate with engineering teams on system integration and deployment.

Skills

Software development

Distributed systems

Event streaming platforms

Apache Kafka

Java

Scala

Performance tuning

English proficiency

Job description

A technology services company is seeking a Staff Apache Kafka Engineer in Spain to enhance distributed data processing systems and real-time analytics. The ideal candidate should have over 10 years of software development experience, expertise in Apache Kafka, and a strong background in distributed systems. Responsibilities include contributing to open source projects and optimizing event streaming platforms. The position offers excellent compensation, benefits, and a multicultural work environment.