Remote Kafka Engineer: Scale, Secure & Automate Streaming

Bright Vision Technologies; Aurora (IL); Remote; USD 82,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a Kafka Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Kafka and Confluent environments for mission-critical workloads. You’ll own sizing, config, security, automation, and observability, enabling developers with a reliable streaming platform.

The ideal candidate has deep Kafka internals knowledge and strong DevOps/SRE practices, plus collaboration with cross-functional teams to translate ambiguous requirements into robust solutions.

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 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 and Confluent platform environments.
• Own the Kafka platform end-to-end: cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions.
• Mentor engineers and raise the bar through code and design reviews.

Skills

Kafka in production

SRE practices

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a Kafka Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Kafka and Confluent environments for mission-critical workloads. You’ll own sizing, config, security, automation, and observability, enabling developers with a reliable streaming platform.

The ideal candidate has deep Kafka internals knowledge and strong DevOps/SRE practices, plus collaboration with cross-functional teams to translate ambiguous requirements into robust solutions.