Senior Kafka Engineer — Remote Platform & SRE Lead

Socket.dev; Ann Arbor (MI); On-site; USD 82,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Kafka Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent environments across mission-critical workloads. You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

The ideal candidate combines deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps/SRE practices and will mentor junior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional

Qualifications

• Five or more years 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 with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and Kafka Streams or ksqlDB.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Kafka and Confluent platforms.
• Own the Kafka platform end-to-end: sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, and operations teams to deliver reliable streaming platforms.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to design and code reviews.

Skills

Kafka internals

Security

Scripting

Observability

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams / ksqlDB

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Kafka Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent environments across mission-critical workloads. You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

The ideal candidate combines deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps/SRE practices and will mentor junior engineers while collaborating with cross-functional