Data Streaming Engineer

Role Description -

We’re seeking a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in Confluent Cloud Kafka and Apache Flink. Candidate should be able to design, build, and operate real-time streaming pipelines and analytics, write and optimize complex Flink SQL queries, and administer Confluent Cloud environments w.R.T to managing topics, schema governance.

Key responsibilities -

• Design, implement, and optimize Flink streaming jobs.
• Confluent Cloud Kafka administration.
• Java knowledge.
• Enforce TLS, RBAC / ACLs, schema governance, secrets management, and audit logging standards.
• Partner with data engineers, platform / SRE, and product teams to define and align SLAs / SLOs, data contracts.
• Review designs / PRs, mentor engineers on streaming best practices;

contribute to standardsand documentation.

Required qualifications -

3+ years focused on Kafka (Confluent Cloud strongly preferred).

expert at writing and tuning complex Flink queries.

can translate requirements into robust streaming designs.

Nice to have -