Senior Remote Kafka Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Piscataway Township (NJ); Remote; USD 100.000 - 150.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a seasoned Kafka Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent environments. You will own the platform end-to-end—size clusters, configure security, automate workflows, and enable developers for reliable streaming workloads.

The role requires deep Kafka internals knowledge, strong DevOps practices, and collaboration with product, design, and operations teams to deliver durable, scalable solutions.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Five or more years of experience operating Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform in production.
• Deep, hands‑on knowledge of Kafka internals (partitions, replication, ISRs).
• Strong experience with Kafka security (SASL, mTLS, ACLs, RBAC).
• Hands‑on experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and either Kafka Streams or ksqlDB.

Aufgaben

• Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Kafka/Confluent clusters across on-prem and cloud.
• Design partitioning, replication, and topic strategies for throughput and durability.
• Implement strong security on Kafka clusters (SASL, mTLS, ACLs, RBAC).
• Operate Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, KSQL/ksqlDB, and Kafka Streams in production.
• Build and operate Kafka Connect pipelines across enterprise systems.
• Design HA/DR strategies including MirrorMaker 2 and multi-region patterns.
• Build CI/CD pipelines for Kafka configurations using GitOps patterns.
• Implement comprehensive observability using Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, or Control Center.
• Lead incident response and post-incident reviews; mentor engineers.
• Maintain comprehensive documentation and runbooks.

Kenntnisse

Kafka internals

Kafka security

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

IaC (Terraform/Ansible)

Observability tooling

DevOps/SRE practices

Mentoring

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams/ksqlDB

Strimzi / Confluent Operator

Terraform

Ansible

Jobbeschreibung

Bright Vision Technologies seeks a seasoned Kafka Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent environments. You will own the platform end-to-end—size clusters, configure security, automate workflows, and enable developers for reliable streaming workloads.

The role requires deep Kafka internals knowledge, strong DevOps practices, and collaboration with product, design, and operations teams to deliver durable, scalable solutions.