Senior Remote Kafka Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Career growth

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

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• 10+ years of professional experience in distributed systems, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering, including 5+ years of hands-on Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform experience.
• Extensive experience implementing Kafka security using SASL, SSL/mTLS, ACLs, RBAC, and enterprise authentication mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and manage highly available Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform environments supporting enterprise-scale event-driven applications.
• Design Kafka cluster topology, broker configuration, partitioning strategies, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization for high-throughput workloads.
• Implement enterprise-grade security using SASL, SSL/mTLS, ACLs, RBAC, encryption, and authentication mechanisms.
• Design and manage Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams, ksqlDB, and event streaming pipelines for real-time data integration.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation frameworks to provision and manage Kafka infrastructure.
• Design and implement High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), backup, failover, and cross-region replication strategies.
• Build comprehensive monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions using Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK, and Confluent monitoring tools.
• Optimize cluster performance, troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement long-term platform improvements.
• Support Kafka deployments on Kubernetes using Strimzi, Confluent Operator, or managed cloud services including AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs (Kafka API), and Confluent Cloud.
• Collaborate with application developers, data engineers, DevOps, SRE, and enterprise architects to establish event-driven architecture standards and best practices.
• Conduct architecture reviews, establish platform governance, perform code reviews, and mentor engineers on Kafka development and operations.

Skills

Apache Kafka

Confluent Platform

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Security (SASL/SSL)

Monitoring (Prometheus Grafana)

OpenTelemetry

ELK

Education

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

Tools

Strimzi

Confluent Operator

AWS MSK

Azure Event Hubs (Kafka API)

Confluent Cloud

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.