Senior Kafka Engineer - Cloud Data Pipelines

Raymond James; Memphis (TN); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Raymond James in Memphis, Tennessee seeks a software engineer to develop and implement specialized code enabling interfaces between business applications and a data warehouse. The role emphasizes Kafka, AWS, Terraform, and Linux expertise, with hybrid work requiring 10–12 days in the office monthly; requires a Bachelor’s degree and 6–10 years of general experience.

Candidates with Spark/Flink and SRE monitoring tools are a plus.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• 6–10 years of general development/engineering experience.
• Financial services knowledge is a plus.
• Hybrid workstyle: in-office 10–12 days per month.

Responsibilities

• Proven experience with Confluent Kafka and Apache Kafka.
• Understand Kafka architecture, components and tuning.
• Experience with Confluent Schema Registry.
• Proficiency with Terraform for IaC on AWS.
• Experience with AWS services: EC2, S3, RDS, Lambda.
• Proficiency with Linux VMs for Kafka Connect support.
• Some experience with Java or Python.
• Desirable: Spark Streaming and Apache Flink.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and collaboration.
• Familiar with SRE concepts and monitoring/dashboards (Splunk, DataDog, Dynatrace, CloudWatch).
• 10 years of relevant development/engineering experience or education mix.

Skills

Kafka

Terraform

AWS

Linux

Java

Python

Spark

Flink

Observability

SRE

Monitoring

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Job description

Raymond James in Memphis, Tennessee seeks a software engineer to develop and implement specialized code enabling interfaces between business applications and a data warehouse. The role emphasizes Kafka, AWS, Terraform, and Linux expertise, with hybrid work requiring 10–12 days in the office monthly; requires a Bachelor’s degree and 6–10 years of general experience.

Candidates with Spark/Flink and SRE monitoring tools are a plus.