AI-Driven Kafka Platform Engineer - Onsite Austin

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Austin (TX)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 190,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Schwab is seeking a Kafka Platform Engineer for an onsite assignment in Austin, TX. You will bring 10+ years in distributed systems and deep expertise with the Confluent Kafka Platform across on‑prem and cloud environments.

In this role you will design secure Kafka architectures, drive HA/DR, assist with data replication, and lead AI-enabled development and automation initiatives to improve engineering efficiency at scale.

Qualifications

10+ years of experience in distributed systems, messaging, and enterprise platform engineering.
Extensive hands-on experience with the Confluent Kafka Platform (on-prem and cloud).
Strong background in Linux/Unix, networking, OS performance and security.
Experience with automation, DevOps and operational tooling.
Experience leveraging AI-powered tools to accelerate development and productivity.

Responsibilities

Design and implement secure Kafka architectures with authentication, authorization, encryption and network isolation.
Define and support high availability, disaster recovery and data replication strategies.
Advise on data ingestion, event streaming and batch/stream processing architectures.
Design and build AI agents, or equivalents, to automate engineering workflows at scale.
Drive automation-first operations and integrate Kafka with CI/CD tooling.
Lead deep-dive investigations into production issues and incidents.