Senior Kafka Platform Engineer - Scale Enterprise Streams

Tuppl Inc.; Blue Ash (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tuppl Inc. seeks a Sr. Kafka Platform Engineer to oversee the scale, reliability, and optimization of a complex enterprise event-streaming ecosystem. You will apply OO design and automation, supporting large-scale production systems with global teams and ITSM practices.

The role emphasizes Kafka expertise, Java backend development, and DevOps practices to ensure high availability, low latency, and robust platform governance across on-prem and cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive Kafka Administration experience in enterprise environments.
• 12+ years of software development or systems engineering experience.
• Proven ability to design and implement scalable event-driven platforms.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, and maintain highly available Kafka clusters across on-premises and cloud environments (Azure, GCP).
• Design reusable automation frameworks and APIs using Java.
• Lead ITSM-aligned lifecycle management (incident, problem, change) for platform reliability.
• Monitor and optimize performance with observability stacks (dynaTrace, Prometheus, Grafana).

Skills

Kafka Administration

Java & Spring Boot

CI/CD (GitHub Actions)

IaC (Terraform/Ansible)

ITSM/ITIL

Observability (dynaTrace/Prometheus/GF

Distributed systems design

Networking/Storage/Virtualization

Problem solving & communication

Agile methodologies

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

dynaTrace

KRaft

Zookeeper

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Job description

Tuppl Inc. seeks a Sr. Kafka Platform Engineer to oversee the scale, reliability, and optimization of a complex enterprise event-streaming ecosystem. You will apply OO design and automation, supporting large-scale production systems with global teams and ITSM practices.

The role emphasizes Kafka expertise, Java backend development, and DevOps practices to ensure high availability, low latency, and robust platform governance across on-prem and cloud environments.