Senior Remote Kafka Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; Redwood City, San Mateo (CA, CA); On-site; USD 78,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal Opportunity Employer

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Streaming Data Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka environments supporting mission-critical workloads. You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver a reliable streaming platform.

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

Qualifications

• 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, 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 Kafka/Confluent environments for event-driven workloads.
• Own the Kafka platform end-to-end including sizing, configuration, security, automation, and observability.
• Partner with product, design, engineering, and operations teams to translate requirements into well-engineered solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to design and code reviews to raise engineering standards.

Skills

Kafka internals

Kafka security

Python scripting

Terraform/Ansible

Observability for Kafka

DevOps/SRE practices

Communication/Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams or ksqlDB

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Streaming Data Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka environments supporting mission-critical workloads. You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement, partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver a reliable streaming platform.

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