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Kafka Engineer

Sydney, New South Wales💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and maintain event-driven data pipelines and real-time streaming applications using Apache Kafka.

Role type

Senior IC Kafka Engineer

Builds

Scalable real-time data streaming platforms and event-driven microservices

Domain

Cloud-native backend engineering, distributed systems

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Apache Kafka, Java (11+), Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes, SQL, MongoDB, CI/CD tooling (Git, Jenkins, Bamboo)

Preferred skills

AWS or Google Cloud, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK stack

Technologies

Kafka, Java, Spring, Docker, Kubernetes, MongoDB, AWS, GCP, Prometheus, Splunk, ELK

Responsibilities

Develop and optimize Kafka-based streaming architectures, implement Java microservices with Spring Boot, manage containerized deployments, integrate with cloud monitoring tools

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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