Remote Kafka Platform Engineer — Scale & Secure Streaming

Bright Vision Technologies; Renton (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Apache Kafka Developer will architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Kafka and Confluent platform environments supporting mission-critical event-driven workloads.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 6+ 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 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.
• Confluent Certified Administrator or Developer credentials.
• Experience operating Kafka on Kubernetes (Strimzi, Confluent Operator).
• Exposure to managed Kafka services (AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs Kafka API).
• Familiarity with stream processing frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming).
• Experience with data governance and lineage for streaming data.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments.
• Own Kafka platform end-to-end including sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.
• 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

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

DevOps practices

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline

Tools

Apache Kafka

Confluent Platform

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams

ksqlDB

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

AWS MSK

Azure Event Hubs Kafka API

Flink

Spark Streaming

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Apache Kafka Developer will architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Kafka and Confluent platform environments supporting mission-critical event-driven workloads.