Overview
On Site
Depends on Experience
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12 Month(s)
100% Travel
Able to Provide Sponsorship
Skills
Kafka
Apache Kafka
Confluent Kafka
Job Details
Messaging (Kafka) Engineer
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement scalable, secure, and high-throughput messaging solutions using Confluent Kafka, Google Pub/Sub Lite, and Azure Service Bus.
- Develop and maintain Kafka topics, schemas, producers, and consumers to support real-time data pipelines and event-driven architectures.
- Collaborate with engineering, DevOps, and product teams to integrate messaging systems into cloud-native microservices and blockchain-based platforms.
- Ensure message durability, ordering, and replayability for financial transactions, including those related to corporate actions and collateral lifecycle events.
- Monitor and tune messaging infrastructure for performance, reliability, and compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Contribute to the development of internal standards and best practices for messaging and data streaming across hybrid cloud environments.
Technical skills:
- 5+ years of experience in distributed systems engineering with a focus on messaging and event streaming.
- Deep expertise in Confluent Kafka (including Schema Registry, Connect, and KSQL), with hands-on experience in production environments.
- Experience with Google Pub/Sub Lite and Azure Service Bus, including hybrid integration patterns.
- Proficiency in Java, Python, or Scala for building Kafka clients and stream processors.
Familiarity with Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure automation
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