Senior Remote Kafka Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka environments supporting mission-critical workloads. You will own the platform end-to-end, including sizing, security, automation, and observability, while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable streaming solutions.

The ideal candidate brings deep Kafka internals knowledge, strong DevOps/SRE practices, and excellent communication and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical discipline.
• Five+ 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 sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and stakeholders to translate requirements into solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise the bar through reviews and design discussions.

Skills

Kafka internals

DevOps / SRE practices

Troubleshooting & debugging

Communication & documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams / ksqlDB

Kubernetes (Strimzi / Confluent Operator)

Observability tools for Kafka

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking an experienced Kafka Platform Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka environments supporting mission-critical workloads. You will own the platform end-to-end, including sizing, security, automation, and observability, while partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable streaming solutions.

The ideal candidate brings deep Kafka internals knowledge, strong DevOps/SRE practices, and excellent communication and