Senior Kafka Platform Engineer - Remote

Bright Vision Technologies; Franklin, Brentwood, Nashville (TN, TN, TN); Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Kafka Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, event streaming, and platform engineering, including extensive expertise with Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform.

The ideal candidate will architect, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale streaming platforms that power mission-critical, real-time data processing across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional experience in distributed systems or platform engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform experience.
• Strong knowledge of Kafka internals and security.
• Experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, and real-time streaming architectures.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage highly available Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform environments.
• Design Kafka cluster topology, partitioning, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization.
• Implement enterprise-grade security (SASL, SSL/mTLS, ACLs, RBAC).
• Design and manage Kafka pipelines (Connect, Schema Registry, Streams, ksqlDB).
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Define HA, DR, backup, and cross-region replication strategies.
• Build monitoring/observability (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK).
• Troubleshoot production issues and drive long-term platform improvements.
• Support Kubernetes deployments with Strimzi, Confluent Operator, or managed services (AWS MSK, Azure, Confluent Cloud).
• Collaborate with engineers and architects to establish event-driven standards; perform architecture reviews and code reviews.

Skills

Distributed systems

Platform engineering

Security

Observability

Leadership

Communication

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/IT

Tools

Apache Kafka

Confluent Platform

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams

ksqlDB

Terraform

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Kubernetes

Strimzi

Confluent Operator

AWS MSK

Azure Event Hubs (Kafka API)

Confluent Cloud

Google Cloud Managed Kafka

Python

Bash

Go

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Kafka Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, event streaming, and platform engineering, including extensive expertise with Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform.

The ideal candidate will architect, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale streaming platforms that power mission-critical, real-time data processing across the organization.