Remote Senior Real-Time Kafka Data Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 135,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. We seek a Real-Time Data Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka environments for mission-critical workloads.

The ideal candidate will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement, collaborating with product, design, and

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.

Skills

Kafka expertise

Kafka internals

Kafka security

Scripting

IaC

Observability

Troubleshooting

Documentation

DevOps/SRE

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams/ksqlDB

Terraform/Ansible

Strimzi/Confluent Operator

Kubernetes

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. We seek a Real-Time Data Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka environments for mission-critical workloads.

The ideal candidate will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement, collaborating with product, design, and