Senior Kafka & AWS Event-Driven Integration Engineer

Oowlish Technology; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Home office

Competitive compensation

Career plans to allow for extensive成长

International Projects

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Job summary

Oowlish Technology, a leading software development company, is seeking an experienced Senior Kafka/AWS Integration Engineer for a project focused on building and productionizing an event-driven middleware platform using Apache Kafka and AWS.

You will work on the AWS side of the integration platform, with Salesforce as the initial event source, within an Agile sprint and alongside a Lead Integration Architect.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience with Java backend development.
• Experience building event-driven and Kafka-based systems.
• Hands-on experience with AWS services and cloud integrations.
• Experience building and supporting production-grade integration pipelines.
• Strong understanding of automated testing, CI/CD, and production-quality software development practices.
• Comfortable working within an Agile/sprint environment under the direction of a client architect.
• Strong communication and technical documentation skills.
• Ability to transfer technical knowledge effectively to client engineering and operations teams.
• Advanced written and verbal English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Provision and configure Amazon MSK clusters, Kafka topics, and schema registry.
• Configure and maintain Kafka Connect and CDC source connectors.
• Build REST-based event ingress using API Gateway and AWS Lambda to receive Salesforce events and publish them to Kafka.
• Develop Java stream-processing applications to transform data between Kafka topics.
• Build Java-based integration pipelines to deliver events from outbound topics to downstream systems.
• Implement dead letter queues and error‑handling patterns for reliable event processing.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines, automated tests, and code coverage.
• Build and maintain infrastructure using AWS CloudFormation, enabling the client's operations team to redeploy and manage the environment.
• Work within the client's Agile/sprint process and collaborate closely with the Lead Integration Architect.
• Create clear technical documentation and provide ongoing knowledge transfer to the client's engineering and operations teams.

Skills

Java development

Stream processing

Agile/Sprint

English communication

Tools

Apache Kafka

Amazon MSK

Kafka Connect

CDC

AWS Lambda

API Gateway

CloudFormation

Schema Registry

CI/CD

Job description

Oowlish Technology, a leading software development company, is seeking an experienced Senior Kafka/AWS Integration Engineer for a project focused on building and productionizing an event-driven middleware platform using Apache Kafka and AWS.

You will work on the AWS side of the integration platform, with Salesforce as the initial event source, within an Agile sprint and alongside a Lead Integration Architect.