Kafka Engineer

Devsinc is looking for a knowledgeable and enthusiastic Kafka Engineer to join our growing team in KSA. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing Kafka-based data pipelines and stream processing systems.

Requirements

• Kafka Operations: Confluent Kafka ; cluster setup and maintenance.
• Cluster Management: High availability, cross-site replication,ZooKeeper.
• Schema Registry & Topic Governance: Confluent Schema Registry or equivalent.
• Monitoring: Prometheus JMX Exporter, Dynatrace Kafka plugins, Elastic. Security: TLS, SASL, ACLs, RBAC.
• Integration & APIs: Kafka REST API, connectors.
• Event-driven architecture and distributed system principles.
• Performance tuning and throughput optimization.
• Disaster recovery strategies for Kafka clusters.
• Governance, schema evolution, and topic lifecycle management.
• Operate and scale Kafka clusters reliably.
• Ensure HA and cross-site replication.
• Implement governance, topic management, and secure access.
• Integrate and monitor Kafka metrics/logs into observability dashboards.
• Ensure proper ACLs and RBAC policies for producers/consumers
• Respond to Kafka-related incidents and outages

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan