Remote Kafka Streaming Data Engineer – Platform & SRE

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 78,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Streaming Data Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka environments supporting mission-critical workloads. You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

The ideal candidate combines deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps and SRE practices, partnering with application teams to deliver reliable, developer-friendly

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 Kafka Streams or ksqlDB.
• Experience with HA/DR strategies for Kafka.
• Strong scripting skills in Python, Bash, or Go.
• IaC experience with Terraform, Ansible.
• Observability tooling for Kafka.
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Kafka/Confluent environments.
• Own the Kafka platform end-to-end including sizing, security, and automation.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate requirements into reliable streaming solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and champion best practices in design and code reviews.

Skills

Kafka operations

DevOps practices

SRE concepts

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Apache Kafka

Confluent Platform

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

ksqlDB / Kafka Streams

Terraform

Ansible

Python

Bash

Go

Kubernetes

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Streaming Data Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka environments supporting mission-critical workloads. You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

The ideal candidate combines deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps and SRE practices, partnering with application teams to deliver reliable, developer-friendly