Kafka / Confluent Developer

We are seeking a Kafka / Confluent Developer who will be designing, building, and operating enterprise-grade event streaming solutions using Confluent Kafka while developing Python-based producers, consumers, and streaming applications. This role blends deep hands on development with technical leadership, ensuring scalable, reliable, and secure real-time data flows across distributed systems. • Due to the nature of the project, we require Visa independent candidates only. • This is a long term contract and 100% Onsite position. • Local candidates preferred. Required Qualifications: • More than 10 years of experience in software or data engineering. • 4+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and/or Confluent Platform. • Strong knowledge of Kafka internals (brokers, partitions, offsets, consumer groups), Schema Registry and schema evolution, Kafka Connect architectures and connectors • Strong proficiency in Python for backend and streaming development. • Experience building production-grade services using Python frameworks and libraries. • Familiarity with async processing, multithreading, or stream processing patterns is a plus. • Experience deploying Kafka and applications in cloud or hybrid environments (AWS, Azure, GCP). • CI/CD pipeline experience (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps). • Infrastructure-as-Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep). • Containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes) preferred. • Strong communication skills across engineering and stakeholder teams. • Ability to translate business use cases into event-driven technical solutions. • Comfortable acting as both hands-on developer and technical lead. • Experience influencing architecture and standards across teams. Please note: We maintain a zero-tolerance policy toward fraudulent applications. Any candidate found to have provided false information, Misrepresented or fabricated work experience, Falsified educational credentials, Fake or altered identification documents, Fraudulent visa or work authorization documents, Impersonation or proxy interviews, will be immediately disqualified from the hiring process.