Messaging Engineer

Teamlease Digital; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Part time

Job summary

Teamlease Digital seeks a Messaging Engineer to design, build, and maintain real-time messaging infrastructure connecting factory-floor automation, MES, and cloud applications.

You will deploy Kafka/RabbitMQ-based systems, craft topics and data schemas, and optimize pipelines for low latency with robust monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities.

Qualifications

• Production experience with Apache Kafka or similar (RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Apache Pulsar)
• Real-time pub/sub pipeline design (Kafka Connect or MQTT clients)
• Strong programming in Java/Scala or Python

Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage distributed message brokers (Kafka or MQTT-based systems)
• Design topics/channels and data schemas for consistent event structure
• Optimise pipelines for low latency, high reliability, and zero data loss/duplication
• Implement monitoring and alerting (throughput, lag, errors) and troubleshoot
• Collaborate with developers to integrate applications with the messaging layer and tune performance

Skills

Kafka experience

Topic design

Real-time pub/sub design

Java/Python

Messaging internals

Job description

About the Role

We're looking for a Messaging Engineer to design, build, and maintain the real-time messaging infrastructure that connects factory-floor automation systems, MES, and enterprise IT platforms- enabling low-latency, reliable data streaming from shop-floor equipment to cloud/data centre applications.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and manage distributed message brokers (Apache Kafka clusters or MQTT-based systems)
• Design message topics/channels and data schemas for consistent event structure (equipment status, test results, alarms)
• Optimise messaging pipelines for low latency, high reliability, and zero data loss/duplication
• Implement monitoring and alerting (throughput, lag, error rates) and troubleshoot pipeline issues
• Collaborate with developers to integrate applications with the messaging layer and tune producer/consumer performance

Must-Have Skills

• Hands-on production experience with Apache Kafka (preferred) or similar (RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, Apache Pulsar) - topic design, partitioning, replication, broker config
• Real-time pub/sub pipeline design (Kafka Connect or MQTT clients)
• Strong programming in Java/Scala or Python
• Understanding of messaging internals - clustering, retention, consumer groups, offset management