Senior Kafka Platform Engineer - Remote

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

Benefits offered by this job

Remote (U.S.)

Competitive salary

Full-time Direct W2 (US)

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments supporting mission-critical event-driven workloads. In this role you will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

The ideal candidate will combine deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps and SRE practices, and will

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• 6+ years of experience operating Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in production.
• Deep, hands-on 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

• Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments.
• Own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.
• Partner with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into well-engineered streaming solutions.
• Raise the bar through code reviews, design reviews, and mentorship of junior engineers.

Skills

Kafka internals

Kafka security

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams / ksqlDB

HA/DR

Python

Bash

Go

Terraform

Ansible

Observability

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Communication

Education

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

Tools

Strimzi

Confluent Operator

AWS MSK

Azure Event Hubs Kafka API

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments supporting mission-critical event-driven workloads. In this role you will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

The ideal candidate will combine deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps and SRE practices, and will