Remote Kafka Engineer: Platform Architect & DevOps

Bright Vision Technologies; Farmington Hills (MI); On-site; USD 82,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Kafka Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments in a 100% remote U.S. setting.

You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement. The ideal candidate combines deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps and SRE practices, and will partner with application teams to deliver a reliable,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Five or more years of experience operating Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in production.
• Deep, hands-on 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

• Own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.
• Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments supporting mission-critical event-driven workloads.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions.
• Raise the bar through code review, design review, and mentorship of junior engineers.

Skills

Kafka fundamentals

SRE/DevOps practices

Scripting (Python Bash Go)

IaC (Terraform Ansible)

Kafka observability

Communication & documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams or ksqlDB

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes (Strimzi/Confluent)

AWS MSK

Confluent Platform

Kafka security (SASL/mTLS/ACLs/RBAC)

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Kafka Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments in a 100% remote U.S. setting.

You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement. The ideal candidate combines deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps and SRE practices, and will partner with application teams to deliver a reliable,