6767 | Kafka Engineer

Job Title : Kafka Engineer (Java)

Experience : 5–8 Years

Job Summary :

We are looking for a skilled Kafka Engineer with 5–7 years of experience in designing, building, and maintaining real-time streaming pipelines using Apache Kafka. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in Java-based development, Kafka architecture, and CI / CD integration. You’ll play a key role in enabling real-time data processing and ensuring the scalability, fault tolerance, and governance of data streaming across our enterprise systems.

Key Responsibilities :

• Design and maintain Kafka-based streaming pipelines for high-throughput, low-latency real-time data processing.
• Ensure scalability, fault tolerance, and schema governance using tools like Schema Registry (Avro / Protobuf).
• Develop robust Kafka producers and consumers using Java, adhering to performance and reliability standards.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate CI / CD pipelines, deployment, and infrastructure provisioning for Kafka components.
• Implement security best practices including encryption, authentication, and access control for Kafka clusters.
• Monitor and troubleshoot Kafka cluster health, latency, throughput, and message delivery guarantees.
• Document architecture, deployment strategies, and operational runbooks for Kafka-based systems.
• Participate in code reviews, knowledge-sharing sessions, and architectural discussions.

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