Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Kafka on OpenShift

Innovaccer Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO

Parental Leave

Rewards program

Insurance Coverage

Job summary

Innovaccer Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Streaming team to own the messaging backbone of our on-premise platform, including Kafka and Schema Registry on OpenShift via Strimzi, plus self-hosted queueing.

You will design patterns, libraries, and infrastructure to move hundreds of producer and consumer touchpoints from cloud services to a reliable, scalable backbone. You'll shape capacity planning, broker health monitoring, and failure-mode hardening while enabling efficient,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend or data infrastructure experience with production Kafka ownership.
• Experience running Kafka on Kubernetes (Strimzi preferred) and managing schema evolution with Schema Registry.
• Hands-on experience with at least one additional broker technology: RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ/Artemis, or NATS/JetStream.
• Strong grasp of messaging semantics: delivery guarantees, idempotency, ordering, and exactly-once processing patterns.
• Professional development experience with Java, Python, or Go.
• Experience with KEDA or event-driven autoscaling is a plus; regulated-environment experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate Kafka and Schema Registry on OpenShift via Strimzi: topic and partition design, retention policies, security, and quota management.
• Redesign integrations built on cloud queue services (SQS/Service Bus patterns) onto self-hosted brokers, defining repeatable patterns for hundreds of producer and consumer touchpoints.
• Build shared client patterns and libraries: retries, dead-letter queues, idempotent consumers, ordering guarantees, and backpressure handling.
• Integrate messaging with the platform's function runtime through KEDA-driven scaling of queue consumers.
• Own capacity planning for the messaging tier: broker disk and IO sizing, throughput modeling, and growth headroom.
• Monitor consumer lag and broker health, run failure-mode testing, and harden the tier against node and site failures.

Skills

Backend development

Messaging systems

Distributed systems

Kubernetes experience

OpenShift experience

Java/Python/Go

Education

B.E./B.Tech./M.Sc. in CS or related

Tools

Kafka

OpenShift/Strimzi

Schema Registry

RabbitMQ/ActiveMQ/NATS

Job description

Innovaccer Inc. seeks a Senior Software Engineer for the Streaming team to own the messaging backbone of our on-premise platform, including Kafka and Schema Registry on OpenShift via Strimzi, plus self-hosted queueing.

You will design patterns, libraries, and infrastructure to move hundreds of producer and consumer touchpoints from cloud services to a reliable, scalable backbone. You'll shape capacity planning, broker health monitoring, and failure-mode hardening while enabling efficient,