Remote Apache Kafka Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Sugar Land (TX); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Apache Kafka Developer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Kafka and Confluent environments for mission-critical workloads. You will own the cluster from sizing to security, automation, and observability, partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable streaming platforms.

The ideal candidate has deep Kafka internals knowledge, strong DevOps practices, and hands-on experience with Connect, Schema Registry, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Five or more years of experience operating Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in production.
• Deep knowledge of Kafka internals (partitions, replication, ISRs, consumer groups).
• Strong experience with Kafka security (SASL, mTLS, ACLs, RBAC).
• Hands-on experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and either Kafka Streams or ksqlDB.
• Experience with HA/DR strategies for Kafka.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
• Hands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Working knowledge of observability tooling for Kafka.
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka environments.
• Own Kafka platform end-to-end including sizing, configuration, security, automation, and observability.
• Partner with application teams to deliver reliable, performant streaming solutions.
• Lead code reviews, design reviews, and mentorship of junior engineers.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams—product, design, engineering, operations and stakeholders.
• Maintain production readiness and documentation to raise the bar for deployments.

Skills

Kafka internals

Kafka security

Scripting

Infra-as-code

Observability

Troubleshooting

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

ksqlDB

DevOps practices

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Apache Kafka Developer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Kafka and Confluent environments for mission-critical workloads. You will own the cluster from sizing to security, automation, and observability, partnering with product and engineering teams to deliver reliable streaming platforms.

The ideal candidate has deep Kafka internals knowledge, strong DevOps practices, and hands-on experience with Connect, Schema Registry, and