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Kafka Engineer
About the role
We are looking for a Kafka Engineer to join our team. You will operate and tune Kafka clusters.
Responsibilities
- Operate and tune Kafka clusters.
- Design topics, partitions and consumer groups.
- Build producers, consumers and connectors.
- Monitor lag and throughput.
- Secure and upgrade the platform.
Required
- Apache Kafka
- Topics, partitions and consumer groups
- Kafka Connect and Streams
- Monitoring and tuning
- Java or Python
Preferred
- Confluent Platform
- Schema Registry
- Flink or Spark Streaming
- Kubernetes
Tools and stack
Apache Kafka, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Schema Registry, Monitoring tools, Java or Python
Employment type: [Contract / W2 / C2C / Full-time]
Location: [City, ST / Remote]
Duration: [months]
Work authorization: [accepted types]Responsibilities explained
Each responsibility maps to something a candidate should be able to describe.
- Operate and tune Kafka clusters.
- Design topics, partitions and consumer groups.
- Build producers, consumers and connectors.
- Monitor lag and throughput.
- Secure and upgrade the platform.
Required skills
Treat these as the screen. If a candidate cannot speak to them, they are rarely a fit.
- Apache Kafka
- Topics, partitions and consumer groups
- Kafka Connect and Streams
- Monitoring and tuning
- Java or Python
Preferred skills
Use these to rank candidates who meet the required list.
- Confluent Platform
- Schema Registry
- Flink or Spark Streaming
- Kubernetes
Other titles this role appears under
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- Kafka Engineer
- Kafka Developer
- Streaming Data Engineer
- Event Streaming Engineer
Seniority guide
Pick the level you need and state it plainly in the posting.
- Junior: writes producers and consumers.
- Mid: operates and tunes.
- Senior: designs the streaming platform.
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