[Hiring] Senior Kafka Engineer @Nortal

Role Description

As a Senior Kafka Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimizing our event-driven architecture and real-time data streaming pipelines. You will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of our Kafka clusters while collaborating closely with cross-functional engineering teams to implement high-throughput data solutions. As a senior member of the team, you will also mentor junior engineers, establish best practices for data streaming, and drive the technical evolution of our event-driven ecosystem.

• Review and assess the current Kafka architecture and event-driven ecosystem.
• Provide recommendations for improving scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational efficiency.
• Evaluate and optimize topic design, partitioning strategies, retention policies, and consumer patterns.
• Advise on event modeling, message payload design, and schema evolution strategies.
• Analyze performance bottlenecks and recommend solutions for throughput, latency, and resource utilization.
• Identify and resolve data retention, replay, and storage management challenges.
• Guide enterprise-scale Kafka deployments using AWS MSK and Confluent Platform.
• Review and recommend best practices for event sourcing and event-driven architecture implementations.
• Assess Kafka Connect integrations and connector configurations.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish architectural standards and operational best practices.
• Mentor internal teams and transfer knowledge to support long-term platform success.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ Years of software engineering, platform engineering, or distributed systems experience.
• 5+ Years of experience designing and implementing Apache Kafka solutions in production environments.
• Strong experience working with Apache Kafka.
• Experience working with the Confluent Platform.
• Solid experience working with AWS MSK.
• Hands-on experience working with Kafka Connect.
• Experience working with Schema Registry.
• Strong experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures.
• Practical experience with Event Sourcing patterns and distributed system design.
• Proven experience supporting high-volume, enterprise-scale Kafka environments.
• Advanced English Level is required for this role, as you will work with US clients.

Benefits

• Competitive USD salary.
• 100% remote work: While you can work from anywhere, you’re always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM.
• Paid off & national holidays: Take the time you need according to your country’s regulations while receiving your full salary.
• Sick leave: Focus on your health without stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better.
• Annual credit: Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance.
• Team-building activities: Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community.
• Birthday off: Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family.