Kafka Developer

Job Summary

We are looking for a skilled Apache Kafka Developer to design, develop, implement, and maintain real-time data streaming solutions using Apache Kafka. The ideal candidate should have experience with event-driven architectures, messaging systems, distributed systems, and microservices.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain Kafka-based data streaming platforms.
• Create and manage Kafka producers, consumers, topics, partitions, and brokers.
• Develop real-time data pipelines and event-driven applications.
• Monitor Kafka clusters and ensure high availability, scalability, and performance.
• Implement data integration solutions with databases, APIs, and cloud platforms.
• Troubleshoot Kafka performance, connectivity, and replication issues.
• Collaborate with application development, DevOps, and data engineering teams.
• Implement security measures including authentication, authorization, and encryption.
• Optimize Kafka configurations for throughput and reliability.

Required Skills

• Strong experience with Apache Kafka.
• Proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python.
• Experience with Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, KSQL/KSQLDB.
• Knowledge of distributed systems and microservices architecture.
• Experience with ZooKeeper (or KRaft architecture in newer Kafka versions).
• Understanding of REST APIs and messaging patterns.
• Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with Confluent Platform.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Understanding of Spark, Hadoop, or other big-data technologies.
• Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, or Splunk.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• Relevant experience in Kafka administration, development, or data engineering.

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