Remote Kafka Platform Engineer — Senior Streaming SRE

Bright Vision Technologies; Sterling (VA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Messaging Systems Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platforms in a 100% remote role in the United States.

The role focuses on end-to-end Kafka ownership, including sizing, security, automation, and observability, with strong DevOps/SRE practices and collaboration with cross-functional teams. A Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of experience are required.

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 platform 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.
• Lead code/design reviews and mentor junior engineers to raise engineering discipline and production readiness.

Skills

Kafka internals

DevOps practices

SRE practices

Python scripting

Bash scripting

Go scripting

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams / ksqlDB

Strimzi

Confluent Platform

AWS MSK

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Messaging Systems Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platforms in a 100% remote role in the United States.

The role focuses on end-to-end Kafka ownership, including sizing, security, automation, and observability, with strong DevOps/SRE practices and collaboration with cross-functional teams. A Bachelor's degree and 6+ years of experience are required.