Senior Kafka Platform Engineer - Remote

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to architect, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale streaming platforms across the organization. The role requires deep knowledge of Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, security, observability, and cloud-native infrastructure, with leadership and mentoring for engineering teams.

The position is 100% remote within the United States and offers a full-time W2Direct employment arrangement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in CS/Engineering or related technical field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in distributed systems/platform engineering.
• 5+ years hands-on Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform experience.
• Strong knowledge of Kafka internals (partitions, replication, brokers, ISR, consumer groups).
• Experience with security (SASL, SSL/mTLS, ACLs, RBAC) and enterprise authentication.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage highly available Kafka and Confluent environments.
• Design cluster topology, partitioning, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Communication

Documentation

Stakeholder management

Technical leadership

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Apache Kafka

Confluent Platform

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

SASL/SSL/mTLS

RBAC

Schema Registry

Kafka Connect

Kafka Streams

ksqlDB

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenTelemetry

ELK

AWS MSK

Azure Event Hubs (Kafka API)

Confluent Cloud

Strimzi

Confluent Operator

Python

Bash

Go

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to architect, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale streaming platforms across the organization. The role requires deep knowledge of Apache Kafka, Confluent Platform, security, observability, and cloud-native infrastructure, with leadership and mentoring for engineering teams.

The position is 100% remote within the United States and offers a full-time W2Direct employment arrangement.