Senior Kafka Architect & Distributed Systems Lead

Euclid Innovations; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Euclid Innovations is seeking an accomplished software engineer for a 12-month contract, located primarily in Charlotte, NC with onsite collaboration. The role requires a decade of software development expertise, heavy emphasis on event-driven and streaming architectures, and leadership experience guiding technical initiatives across distributed systems.

You will work with a Java/Spring Boot stack, Kafka ecosystem (Kafka Streams, Connect), and modern CI/CD practices to deliver mission-critical

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software engineering experience.
• 5+ years designing and implementing event-driven architectures.
• 5+ years hands-on Apache Kafka experience in large-scale production environments.
• Proven experience designing distributed systems supporting mission-critical workloads.
• Experience leading engineering teams or acting as a technical lead on major initiatives.

Skills

Leadership experience

Technical lead

Distributed systems design

Event-driven architectures

Mentoring

Tools

Java

Spring Boot

Spring Kafka

Kafka Connect

Kafka Streams

REST APIs

Docker

Terraform

GitHub Actions

GitLab

Jenkins

Job description

Euclid Innovations is seeking an accomplished software engineer for a 12-month contract, located primarily in Charlotte, NC with onsite collaboration. The role requires a decade of software development expertise, heavy emphasis on event-driven and streaming architectures, and leadership experience guiding technical initiatives across distributed systems.

You will work with a Java/Spring Boot stack, Kafka ecosystem (Kafka Streams, Connect), and modern CI/CD practices to deliver mission-critical