Confluent Engineer -Remote

Nfolks Data Solutions LLC
United States
4 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
6 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Java (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Computer Programming Information Engineering Relational Databases Protocol Buffers Monitoring of Systems JSON Python (Programming Language)
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PostgreSQL Microsoft SQL Server OpenShift Oracle (Applications) Prometheus Enterprise Application Integration Google Cloud Grafana Debezium Avro Apache Kafka Restful APIs Splunk Docker Confluent

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in software/data engineering with strong Apache Kafka experience.
  • Hands-on experience with Confluent Platform and/or Confluent Cloud.
  • Strong knowledge of:

  • Kafka Brokers
  • Topics and Partitions
  • Replication
  • Consumer Groups
  • Offset Management
  • Producer/Consumer APIs

Strong experience with Kafka Connect and connectors.

Experience with Schema Registry.

Experience with Avro, JSON, and/or Protobuf.

Hands-on experience with Kafka Streams and/or ksqlDB.

Strong programming experience in Java, Python, or Scala.

Experience with REST APIs and enterprise application integration.

Experience with relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, or PostgreSQL.

Knowledge of CDC/Debezium is highly desirable.

Experience with Kafka security including SSL/TLS, SASL, and ACLs.

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift.

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Strong Linux/Unix troubleshooting skills.

Experience with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or equivalent.

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