Senior Kafka & Streaming Backend Engineer

Innovaccer; United States; On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

PTO 20 days

Parental leave

Recognition & Rewards

Medical insurance

Job summary

Innovaccer is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Streaming team to own the messaging backbone of our on-premise platform, including Kafka, Schema Registry on OpenShift via Strimzi, and the self-hosted queueing layer replacing cloud services.

You will design patterns, libraries, and infrastructure to scale reliability across hundreds of producer/consumer touchpoints and ensure seamless integration with the platform runtime.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or data infrastructure experience with production Kafka ownership.
• Experience running Kafka on Kubernetes (Strimzi preferred) and Schema Registry.
• Hands-on with at least one other broker technology: RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ/Artemis, or NATS/JetStream.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate Kafka and Schema Registry on OpenShift via Strimzi.
• Redesign integrations from cloud queue services to self-hosted brokers.
• Build shared client patterns: retries, dead-letter queues, idempotent consumers.
• Integrate messaging with the platform’s function runtime via KEDA-driven scaling.
• Own capacity planning for the messaging tier and monitor broker health.

Skills

Kafka

OpenShift

Strimzi

Schema Registry

Java

Python

Go

Back-end development

Distributed systems

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

OpenShift

Kubernetes

RabbitMQ

ActiveMQ/Artemis

NATS/JetStream

Schema Registry

Job description

Innovaccer is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Streaming team to own the messaging backbone of our on-premise platform, including Kafka, Schema Registry on OpenShift via Strimzi, and the self-hosted queueing layer replacing cloud services.

You will design patterns, libraries, and infrastructure to scale reliability across hundreds of producer/consumer touchpoints and ensure seamless integration with the platform runtime.