Senior Remote Kafka Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 82,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Career growth potential

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Kafka Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large‑scale Kafka and Confluent platform environments. This remote, full‑time role emphasizes end‑to‑end ownership, including cluster sizing, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

The ideal candidate brings 7+ years of Kafka experience and strong DevOps/SRE practices, with collaboration across product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.

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 and Confluent environments.
• Own Kafka platform end‑to‑end: sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.
• Mentor junior engineers and raise the bar through code and design reviews.

Skills

Kafka internals

Kafka security

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

Kafka Streams

Scripting

Python

Bash

Go

Observability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Kafka Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large‑scale Kafka and Confluent platform environments. This remote, full‑time role emphasizes end‑to‑end ownership, including cluster sizing, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

The ideal candidate brings 7+ years of Kafka experience and strong DevOps/SRE practices, with collaboration across product, design, engineering, operations, and business stakeholders.