Kafka Developer

Confluent Kafka Developer / Streaming Data Engineer • Experience Level: • 5–8 Years ### • Job Summary: • We are looking for a highly skilled • Confluent Kafka Developer / Streaming Engineer • with 5–8 years of experience in building and maintaining real-time streaming platforms using • Confluent Kafka. This role involves working with • • Kafka Streams (KStream), • • KSQL/ksqlDB, • • Kafka Connect • , and managing Confluent-based infrastructure to enable scalable, secure, and resilient event-driven systems. • Key Responsibilities: • • Kafka Stream Processing • • Design and develop real-time applications using • Kafka Streams (KStream) • for stateless and stateful transformations, windowing, and joins. • Create • KSQL/ksqlDB • streams and tables for on-the-fly analytics and streaming ETL use cases. • Optimize streaming pipelines for • throughput, • • latency, and • • exactly-once processing guarantees • . • Confluent Platform Integration • • Implement • Kafka Connect • for source/sink connectors (e.g., JDBC, S3, Elasticsearch). • Manage • Schema Registry • for Avro/JSON/Protobuf schema evolution with full compatibility controls. • Utilize • Confluent Control Center • for visibility into throughput, lag, and health of data pipelines. • Provision and maintain • Confluent Kafka clusters • on • Kubernetes, • • OpenShift, or • • AWS/GCP • using • Helm, • • Terraform, or • • Ansible • . • Configure • multi-region replication, • • disaster recovery, and • • mirror-maker 2.0 • . • Monitor and troubleshoot clusters using • Prometheus, • • Grafana, • • Confluent Metrics Reporter, or third-party tools (e.g., • • Dynatrace, • • Alma • ). • Required Skills & Experience: • • 5–8 years of experience with • Apache Kafka, including 2–4 years on • • Confluent Kafka Platform • . • Strong hands-on experience with • KStream, • • KSQL, and • • Kafka Connect • . • Proficiency in • Java, • • Python, or • • Scala • for streaming app development. • Familiarity with • distributed systems, • • schema evolution, • • data consistency, and • • idempotency • . • Cloud-native Kafka deployments experience (AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud, or Kubernetes). • Strong knowledge of • Kafka security, • • topic design, and • • capacity planning • . ### • Preferred Qualifications: • • Confluent Kafka certification (Developer/Admin) is a plus. • Experience in • event-driven microservices, • • IoT, or • • real-time analytics • . • Familiarity with • Confluent REST Proxy, • • Kafka Streams testing libraries, and • • ksqlDB UDF/UDAF • . Job Type: Contract Pay: $60.00 - $70.00 per hour Work Location: In person