Senior Kafka Platform Engineer - Remote

Bright Vision Technologies; Bellevue (AZ, WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Apache Kafka Developer for a 100% remote role in the United States. The position requires 6+ years of experience and offers a competitive salary range.

You will architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Kafka and Confluent environments, owning security, automation, observability, and developer enablement to deliver reliable streaming platforms.

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 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.

Responsibilities

• Own the Kafka platform end-to-end including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, and observability.
• Provide developer enablement and collaborate with product, design, engineering, and operations teams.
• mentor junior engineers and contribute to design and code reviews.
• Ensure reliable, performant streaming platforms for mission-critical workloads.

Skills

Kafka

DevOps

SRE

Python

Bash

Go

Observability

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline

Tools

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes (Strimzi/Confluent Operator)

Security (SASL, mTLS, ACLs, RBAC)

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Apache Kafka Developer for a 100% remote role in the United States. The position requires 6+ years of experience and offers a competitive salary range.

You will architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Kafka and Confluent environments, owning security, automation, observability, and developer enablement to deliver reliable streaming platforms.