Duties and responsibilities: 

• Primary responsibilities are focused on the Analysis, Design, Development, and Testing of features utilizing Confluent Kafka.
• Apply Confluent Kafka API lifecycle development and management.
• Define & Deploy API Governance & Monitoring processes.
• Unit test to ensure that solutions meet requirements outlined in the design documentation.
• Maintain and enhance Confluent Kafka architecture, Confluent Kafka design principles, and CI/CD Deployment procedures.
• Model system behaviors using best practice methods for communicating architecture and design.
• Ensure unit, system, integration, stress, and user acceptance testing are in alignment with architecture.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field required.
• 3+ years’ experience with end-to-end design and development of services for Kafka preferably in Java (Confluent Kafka preferred).
• Proficient understanding of Kafka Architecture (Confluent Kafka preferred).
• Experience with Kafka development (v6 is preferred but v5 is acceptable) and Kafka administration (Confluent Kafka preferred).
• Strong understanding and experience with security implementations (e.g., SSL/mutual SSL, Kerberos).
• Familiar with 3rd Party Kafka Connectors (Confluent Kafka preferred but Apache Kafka acceptable).
• Experience with building streaming applications with Confluent Kafka (Confluent Kafka preferred).
• Development experience using Kafka producers, consumers, and streams (Confluent Kafka preferred).