Confluent Kafka Engineer (Platform / Infrastructure Engineering)

We are seeking an experienced Confluent Kafka Engineer to design, build, and operate a scalable Kafka platform that enables self-service streaming for engineering teams. This is a hands-on engineering role focused on platform reliability, automation, governance, and developer enablement.

Key Responsibilities

Kafka Platform Engineering

• Design, build, and operate large-scale Confluent Kafka clusters (on-prem, cloud, or hybrid)
• Architect Kafka farms for high availability, fault tolerance, and performance
• Own capacity planning, scaling strategies, and Kafka lifecycle management
• Define best practices for topic design, partitioning, replication, and retention

Self-Service Enablement & Tooling

• Design and build internal APIs and services to enable Kafka self-service

(topic lifecycle, ACL provisioning, schema onboarding)

• Develop CLI tools and developer-facing ut...