Remote Real-Time Data Engineer | Kafka Platform & SRE

Bright Vision Technologies

Frisco (TX)

Remote

USD 135,000 - 160,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Real-Time Data Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent environments supporting mission-critical event-driven workloads.

You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement, partnering with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable streaming solutions.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
5+ 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.