Kafka Platform Engineer
Bright Vision Technologies
United StatesPosted 4 days agoDiscoveredMatch locked
RemoteFull Time5+ years expDeveloper
About the role
Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.
Job Title
Kafka Platform Engineer
L ocation
100% Remote (U.S.)
Position Type
Full-time, Direct W2
Salary Range
$130,000-$180,000 Annually (based on experience)
Sponsorship
U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.
Job Summary
Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced
Kafka Platform Engineer
with
10+ years of experience
in distributed systems, event streaming, and platform engineering, including extensive expertise with
Apache Kafka
and the
Confluent Platform
. The ideal candidate will architect, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale streaming platforms that power mission-critical, real-time data processing across the organization. This role requires deep technical expertise in Kafka internals, platform automation, security, observability, and cloud-native infrastructure, along with the ability to mentor engineering teams and define enterprise event-streaming standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Architect, deploy, and manage highly available
Apache Kafka
and
Confluent Platform
environments supporting enterprise-scale event-driven applications.
- Design Kafka cluster topology, broker configuration, partitioning strategies, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization for high-throughput workloads.
- Implement enterprise-grade security using
SASL, SSL/mTLS, ACLs, RBAC
, encryption, and authentication mechanisms.
- Design and manage
Kafka Connect
,
Schema Registry
,
Kafka Streams
,
ksqlDB
, and event streaming pipelines for real-time data integration.
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using
Terraform
,
Ansible
, or similar automation frameworks to provision and manage Kafka infrastructure.
- Design and implement High Availability (HA), Disaster Recovery (DR), backup, failover, and cross-region replication strategies.
- Build comprehensive monitoring, alerting, logging, and observability solutions using
Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ELK
, and Confluent monitoring tools.
- Optimize cluster performance, troubleshoot production issues, conduct root cause analysis, and implement long-term platform improvements.
- Support Kafka deployments on
Kubernetes
using
Strimzi
,
Confluent Operator
, or managed cloud services including
AWS MSK
,
Azure Event Hubs (Kafka API)
, and
Confluent Cloud
.
- Collaborate with application developers, data engineers, DevOps, SRE, and enterprise architects to establish event-driven architecture standards and best practices.
- Conduct architecture reviews, establish platform governance, perform code reviews, and mentor engineers on Kafka development and operations.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical discipline.
•
10+ years of professional experience
in distributed systems, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering, including
5+ years of hands-on Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform experience
.
- Expert-level knowledge of
Kafka internals
, including partitions, replication, brokers, ISR, consumer groups, offset management, and performance tuning.
- Extensive experience implementing Kafka security using
SASL, SSL/mTLS, ACLs, RBAC
, and enterprise authentication mechanisms.
- Strong hands-on experience with
Kafka Connect
,
Schema Registry
,
Kafka Streams
,
ksqlDB
, and real-time event streaming architectures.
- Experience implementing
High Availability (HA)
,
Disaster Recovery (DR)
, multi-cluster replication, and cross-region failover strategies.
- Advanced scripting skills using
Python
,
Bash
, or
Go
, along with Infrastructure as Code experience using
Terraform
,
Ansible
, or similar tools.
- Strong experience with observability platforms including
Prometheus
,
Grafana
,
OpenTelemetry
,
ELK
, and distributed tracing solutions.
- Excellent troubleshooting, communication, documentation, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.
Preferred Qualifications
•
Confluent Certified Administrator
or
Confluent Certified Developer
certification.
- Experience operating Kafka on
Kubernetes
using
Strimzi
,
Confluent Operator
, or similar operators.
- Hands-on experience with managed Kafka services including
AWS MSK
,
Confluent Cloud
,
Azure Event Hubs (Kafka API)
, or
Google Cloud Managed Kafka
.
- Experience with stream processing technologies such as
Apache Flink
,
Apache Spark Structured Streaming
, or
Apache Beam
.
- Knowledge of
data governance
, schema evolution, metadata management, and data lineage for streaming platforms.
How to Apply
Would you like to know more about this opportunity?
For immediate consideration, please send your resume to or contact us at (908) 505-3545. Learn more about Bright Vision Technologies at www.bvteck.com.
Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement
Bright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.
BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.
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