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Need Kafka Developer (Confluent) / Streaming Data Engineer / Remote

Looking for Kafka developer/ remote.

 

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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.

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