Kafka Developer (Dallas)

Locations are Pittsburgh, PA/Dallas, TX /Cleveland, OH Experience Required: 12+ years Salary : $125K yearly We are looking for a skilled Kafka Engineer to design, develop, and maintain real-time data streaming solutions using Apache Kafka. The ideal candidate will have experience in building scalable and high-performance data pipelines and working with distributed systems. 5+ years of experience in software development with at least 3+ years of hands-on Apache Kafka experience · Strong understanding of Kafka architecture (brokers, topics, partitions, offsets, replication, ISR) Experience with Kafka ecosystem tools such as Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, Kafka Streams, or ksqlDB Proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python (Java preferred) Experience designing and supporting high-volume, low-latency data pipelines · Solid understanding of distributed systems, messaging patterns, and event-driven design · Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code practices Strong debugging, performance tuning , and troubleshooting skills