Kafka Platform Engineer

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States. This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential. Job Title: Kafka Platform Engineer L ocation: 100% Remote (U.S.) Position Type: Full-time, Direct W2 Salary Range: $130,000–$180,000 Annually (based on experience) Experience Required: 10+ Years Sponsorship: U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position. Job Summary Bright Vision Technologies is seeking a highly experienced Kafka Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience in distributed systems, event streaming, and platform engineering, including extensive expertise with Apache Kafka and the Confluent Platform . The ideal candidate will architect, deploy, and manage enterprise-scale streaming platforms that power mission-critical, real-time data processing across the organization. This role requires deep technical expertise in Kafka internals, platform automation, security, observability, and cloud-native infrastructure, along with the ability to mentor engineering teams and define enterprise event-streaming standards. Key Responsibilities Architect, deploy, and manage highly available Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform environments supporting enterprise-scale event-driven applications. Design Kafka cluster topology, broker configuration, partitioning strategies, replication, capacity planning, and performance optimization for high-throughput workloads. Implement enterprise-grade security using SASL, SSL/mTLS, ACLs, RBAC , encryption, and authentication mechanisms. Design and manage Kafka Connect , Schema Registry , Kafka Streams , ksqlDB , and event streaming pipelines for real-time data integration. Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code us