Kafka Platform engineer

We are looking for a strong Kafka Platform Engineer who has deep hands-on experience designing, building, managing, and optimizing Kafka platforms at scale. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in Kafka broker architecture, cluster management, performance tuning, replication, and Confluent ecosystem components., * Design, build, and manage Kafka platform infrastructure

• Configure and optimize Kafka brokers and clusters
• Handle performance tuning, scaling, and troubleshooting
• Manage replication, partition strategy, and broker balancing
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and platform reliability improvements
• Support high-throughput and mission-critical streaming environments
• Work with infrastructure and application teams for platform integration
• Ensure security, availability, and disaster recovery readiness

• Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform
• Experience designing and managing large Kafka clusters
• Deep understanding of Kafka broker architecture and internals
• Experience with partitioning, replication, ISR, retention, and log compaction
• Kafka performance tuning and troubleshooting experience
• Experience with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, MirrorMaker, and KRaft/ZooKeeper
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and event streaming platforms
• Experience with monitoring, scaling, capacity planning, and disaster recovery
• Experience with Linux, scripting, and automation
• Knowledge of Kubernetes/Cloud Kafka deployments is preferred, + Confluent Platform or Confluent Cloud
• Multi-region Kafka deployments
• Kafka on Kubernetes/Strimzi
• Infrastructure as Code and automation tools
• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise Kafka environments