Role Details:
* Title: Kafka Engineer (80% engineering, 20% admin)
* Duration: 1 year
* Location: Remote (PST hours)
* Interview: 1–2 rounds focused on technical knowledge and configuration
Top Skills:
- Kafka Connectors (most important: integration knowledge)
- Configuration experience
- Nice to have: KSQL (Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka)
- Confluent Kafka administration across multi\-DC brokers, connectors, C3, KSQL DB, Rest Proxy, Schema Registry
- Configure and maintain Kafka topics, RBAC, connectors, KSQL, and schema registry
- Ensure Kafka security, scalability, availability, and disaster recovery
- Support Kafka clients in Java, Node.js, and Python
- Basic administration of Apache NiFi (OSS)
- Design and develop Kafka\-based solutions using Confluent Kafka, Connectors, KSQL, and NiFi
- Experience with cloud (AWS), data connectors, and queue connectors (design \+ configuration)
Job Responsibilities:
This is a remote position.