Remote Kafka Platform Engineer | Event-Driven Streaming

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent environments supporting mission-critical workloads.

You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement, partnering with product, design, engineering, and operations teams.

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

• Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent environments.
• Own the Kafka platform end-to-end: sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, developer enablement.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into engineered solutions.
• Raise the bar through code review, design review, and mentorship of junior engineers.
• Ensure reliability and performance of streaming platforms in production.

Skills

Kafka internals

Kafka security

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

ksqlDB/Streams

HA/DR for Kafka

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform/Ansn

Observability

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Confluent Platform

Kubernetes

Strimzi

AWS MSK

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent environments supporting mission-critical workloads.

You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement, partnering with product, design, engineering, and operations teams.