Remote Kafka Platform Engineer — Scale & Security

Bright Vision Technologies; Issaquah (WA); On-site; 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 platform end-to-end, including sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

You will collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust, scalable streaming 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, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to translate ambiguous requirements into well-engineered solutions and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Kafka internals knowledge

Kafka security

Python

Bash

Go

Terraform

Ansible

Observability tooling

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Education

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

Tools

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams/ksqlDB

Kubernetes (Strimzi/Confluent Operator)

AWS MSK/Azure Event Hubs Kafka API

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 platform end-to-end, including sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

You will collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into robust, scalable streaming solutions