Senior Remote Kafka Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Messaging Systems Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments across the United States. You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

The ideal candidate will combine deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps and SRE practices, and will partner with product teams to deliver reliable,

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 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 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 environments.
• Own the Kafka platform end-to-end including sizing, security, automation, and observability.
• Collaborate with product, design, engineering, operations, and stakeholders to translate requirements into engineered solutions.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to design and code reviews to raise engineering standards.

Skills

Kafka

DevOps/SRE

Scripting (Python/Bash/Go)

IaC (Terraform/Ansible)

Observability

Troubleshooting & Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/Engineering

Tools

Kafka

Confluent Platform

Kubernetes (incl. Strimzi/Confluent Operator)

Kafka Connect

Schema Registry

ksqlDB

Terraform

Ansible

AWS MSK / Azure Event Hubs Kafka API

Job description

Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a Messaging Systems Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments across the United States. You will own the Kafka platform end-to-end, including cluster sizing, configuration, security, automation, observability, and developer enablement.

The ideal candidate will combine deep Kafka internals knowledge with strong DevOps and SRE practices, and will partner with product teams to deliver reliable,