Kafka Developer

Design, develop, and deploy robust Kafka producers, consumers, and data streaming applications within real-time data pipelines. Build and maintain scalable architectures using Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, or ksqlDB while configuring and tuning clusters for high availability. Integrate systems with microservices, databases, and cloud storage, implementing enterprise security protocols and managing schemas via Schema Registry. Monitor system health, diagnose messaging bottlenecks, and resolve complex production issues in distributed environments. Partner with software engineering, data science, and DevOps teams to champion event-driven architecture patterns. Requires Java Spring and Kafka experience.