Remote Kafka Software Engineer - Real-Time Streaming

BairesDev; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work 100%

Competitive salary in USD or local

Home-office setup provided

Flexible hours

Parental leave & holidays

Global mentorship & growth

Job summary

BairesDev is seeking a Software Engineer (Apache Kafka) to design, implement, and manage production-grade Kafka clusters and streaming applications. You will work remotely with a global team to deliver scalable data platforms.

You will build real-time data pipelines, optimize performance, and define event-driven standards while ensuring system availability and data integrity across high-scale environments. Excellent English is required.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or Stream Processing.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and manage production-grade Kafka clusters and streaming applications.
• Develop real-time data integration pipelines using Kafka Connect and Kafka Streams.

Skills

Kafka

Real-time pipelines

Event-driven architecture

Kafka Streams

Confluent

Avro

Performance tuning

English proficiency

Tools

Kafka Connect

Confluent Schema Registry

Job description

BairesDev is seeking a Software Engineer (Apache Kafka) to design, implement, and manage production-grade Kafka clusters and streaming applications. You will work remotely with a global team to deliver scalable data platforms.

You will build real-time data pipelines, optimize performance, and define event-driven standards while ensuring system availability and data integrity across high-scale environments. Excellent English is required.