Kafka Lead Engineer

Candidate should have:
• Experience with developing KSQL queries and best practices of using KSQL vs streams
• Strong fundamentals in Kafka administration, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Practical experience with how to scale Kafka, K-Streams, and Connector infrastructures, with the motivation to build efficient platforms
• Hands-on experience as a developer who has used the Kafka API to build producer and consumer applications, along with expertise in implementing KStreams components.
• Strong knowledge of the Kafka Connect framework
• Experience with Kafka Streams / KSQL architecture and associated clustering model
• Knowledge in Best practices to optimize the Kafka ecosystem based on use-case and workload, e.g. how to effectively use topic, partitions, and consumer groups to provide optimal routing
•8+ years of hands-on experience in developing applications using Kafka (Architecture)
• 8+ Working experience with Kafka Client APIs (Producer, Consumer, Streams)