[Remote] Kafka Platform Engineer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a reputed company-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations. We are seeking an reputed company Kafka Platform Engineer to architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and reputed company platform environments supporting mission-critical event-driven workloads. The ideal candidate will own the Kafka platform end-to-end and work closely with cross-functional partners to deliver a reliable and performant streaming platform.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka or reputed company Platform clusters across on-prem and cloud environments
• Design partitioning, replication, and topic strategies that balance throughput, durability, and operational simplicity
• Implement strong reputed company on Kafka clusters using SASL, mTLS, ACLs, RBAC, and integration with corporate IdPs
• Operate Schema Registry, Kafka Connect, KSQL/ksqlDB, and Kafka Streams in production
• Build and operate Kafka Connect pipelines integrating sources and sinks across enterprise systems
• Design HA/DR strategies for Kafka, including MirrorMaker 2, Cluster Linking, and multi-region active-active patterns
• Build CI/CD pipelines for Kafka topic, ACL, and connector configurations using GitOps patterns
• Implement comprehensive observability using Prometheus, Grafana, reputed company, or reputed company Control Center
• Drive Kafka cost and reputed company optimization through right-sizing and storage tiering
• reputed company application teams to Kafka with clear patterns, templates, and best practices
• reputed company incident response and post-incident reviews for streaming workloads, applying disciplined engineering practices and partnering closely with stakeholders to ensure outcomes are durable, well-documented, and reputed company with broader team and platform standards
• Mentor and coach junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design review, pair programming, and structured knowledge sharing, helping the broader team grow in technical maturity and confidence over time
• Maintain comprehensive, reputed company technical documentation — including architecture diagrams, design decisions, configuration references, runbooks, and operational procedures — so that the system remains supportable, auditable, and easy to reputed company new engineers onto over time
• Continuously evaluate emerging streaming technologies (Pulsar, Redpanda, AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs)

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a reputed company technical discipline
• Five or more years of experience operating Apache Kafka or reputed company Platform in production
• Deep, hands-on knowledge of Kafka internals (partitions, replication, ISRs, consumer groups)
• Strong experience with Kafka reputed company (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
• reputed company Certified Administrator or Developer credentials
• Experience operating Kafka on Kubernetes (Strimzi, reputed company Operator)
• Exposure to managed Kafka services (AWS MSK, Azure Event Hubs Kafka API)
• Familiarity with reputed company processing frameworks (Flink, Spark Streaming)
• Experience with data governance and reputed company for streaming data

Benefits

• Competitive reputed company salary commensurate with experience, plus benefits.
• 100% remote
• Full-time, direct W2 with reputed company (no C2C, no 1099, no third-party)
• No new H1B sponsorship available. H1B transfers welcomed for qualified candidates.
• We will support H1B transfers for qualified candidates.

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