Lead Kafka Platform Engineer

Arkhya Tech Inc.; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Arkhya Tech Inc. is seeking a Lead Kafka Software Engineer to support, advance, and modernize its enterprise Kafka streaming platforms. The role combines hands-on engineering with operational leadership to ensure highly available and observable event streaming services.

You will own Kafka-based systems, guide complex initiatives, and drive reliability and support excellence across teams, influencing best practices and platform architectures.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Software Engineering experience.
• 7+ years of Linux/Unix server experience.
• 5+ years deploying and supporting software on Kubernetes-based platforms.
• 3+ years hands-on experience supporting Apache Kafka.
• 3+ years using CI/CD tools including Ansible, Git, Jenkins, Harness.

Responsibilities

• Lead and support complex Kafka-related initiatives with enterprise-wide impact and multi-team dependencies.
• Define and evolve companywide standards, best practices, and operational patterns for Kafka-based streaming solutions.
• Design, develop, test, debug, and document software and platform components for Kafka infrastructure, tooling, and integrations.
• Provide hands-on engineering and support for Kafka platforms, including incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Design, build, and maintain APIs and services for Kafka provisioning, monitoring, and client integration.
• Implement CI/CD automation for Kafka platform services and tooling, ensuring auditable deployments.
• Make technical decisions influencing Kafka platform architecture and operations.
• Collaborate with developers, SREs, and infra teams to resolve Kafka issues.
• Support Kafka observability with logging, metrics, dashboards, and alerts.
• Lead projects, mentor engineers, and share knowledge across the team.

Skills

Software engineering

Linux/Unix

Kubernetes

Apache Kafka

CI/CD

Tools

Ansible

Git

Jenkins

Harness

ELK

Grafana

Job description

Arkhya Tech Inc. is seeking a Lead Kafka Software Engineer to support, advance, and modernize its enterprise Kafka streaming platforms. The role combines hands-on engineering with operational leadership to ensure highly available and observable event streaming services.

You will own Kafka-based systems, guide complex initiatives, and drive reliability and support excellence across teams, influencing best practices and platform architectures.