Kafka Specialist

Euclid Innovations; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Euclid Innovations is seeking an accomplished software engineer for a 12-month contract, located primarily in Charlotte, NC with onsite collaboration. The role requires a decade of software development expertise, heavy emphasis on event-driven and streaming architectures, and leadership experience guiding technical initiatives across distributed systems.

You will work with a Java/Spring Boot stack, Kafka ecosystem (Kafka Streams, Connect), and modern CI/CD practices to deliver mission-critical

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years designing and implementing event-driven architectures.
• 5+ years hands-on Apache Kafka experience in large-scale production environments.
• Proven experience designing distributed systems supporting mission-critical workloads.
• Experience leading engineering teams or acting as a technical lead on major initiatives.

Skills

Leadership experience

Technical lead

Distributed systems design

Event-driven architectures

Mentoring

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Kafka

Kafka Connect

Kafka Streams

REST APIs

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Jenkins

Job description

New York / Charlotte, NC (3 Days Onsite)

12 Months Contract

Required Qualifications

Experience

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years designing and implementing event-driven architectures.
• 5+ years of hands‑on Apache Kafka experience in large‑scale production environments.
• Proven experience designing distributed systems supporting mission‑critical workloads.
• Experience leading engineering teams or acting as a technical lead on major initiatives.

Technical Skills

Core Technologies

• Expert‑level Java
• Spring Boot
• Spring Kafka
• Kafka Connect
• Kafka Streams
• REST APIs

Distributed Systems

• Event Sourcing
• CQRS
• Asynchronous processing
• High‑availability architecture
• Disaster recovery design
• Docker
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, or equivalent

Observability

• OpenTelemetry
• Grafana
• ELK/Splunk
• Distributed tracing platforms

Data & Messaging

• Schema Registry
• JSON
• CDC patterns
• Data streaming and integration platforms