Remote Apache Kafka Developer for Real-Time Data Streaming

BairesDev; Ciudad de México; Remote; MXN 2,251,000 - 3,376,000; Full time

Job summary

BairesDev is seeking a highly experienced Apache Kafka Developer to join its global remote team. You will work on distributed data processing systems, focusing on performance optimization and scalable architecture.

Join a world-class team delivering real-time analytics with Kafka, Spark, and related ecosystems, and contribute to open source projects while collaborating with global engineers.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience.
• Strong expertise in distributed systems and large-scale event streaming.
• Proficiency in Java and Scala; Kafka architecture knowledge.
• Advanced English proficiency.
• Core contributions to Apache open source projects (Kafka, Spark, Flink, or similar).

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

Java

Scala

Distributed systems

Kafka

Kafka Streams

Spark

Open source contributions

English

Tools

Kafka

Hive

Iceberg

Apache Spark

Job description

BairesDev is seeking a highly experienced Apache Kafka Developer to join its global remote team. You will work on distributed data processing systems, focusing on performance optimization and scalable architecture.

Join a world-class team delivering real-time analytics with Kafka, Spark, and related ecosystems, and contribute to open source projects while collaborating with global engineers.