Are you the kind of engineer who gets genuinely excited about building ultra-reliable data pipelines and keeping large event-driven systems humming smoothly? Bright Vision Technologies is looking for a talented Apache Kafka Developer to take total ownership of our enterprise streaming infrastructure. This is a chance to step into a 100 percent remote role where your deep technical expertise will directly shape how we deliver cutting-edge cloud and AI solutions to clients across the United States. If you love solving complex scaling puzzles and want to work with a team that values your craft, keep reading.

Overview

As our new Kafka Platform Engineer, you will architect, deploy, and operate large-scale Apache Kafka and Confluent platform environments that support mission-critical workloads. You will own the platform end-to-end. That means everything from cluster sizing and configuration to security hardening, automation, observability, and developer enablement falls under your watchful eye. We want someone who brings a solid mix of Kafka internals knowledge combined with robust DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering practices.

Key Responsibilities

Design, deploy, and manage highly available, scalable, and secure Apache Kafka and Confluent clusters across enterprise environments.
Optimize cluster performance, tune JVM settings, manage partitions, and troubleshoot complex streaming issues.
Implement rigorous security measures including encryption, authentication, and authorization protocols.
Build automation scripts and infrastructure as code to streamline provisioning and scaling processes.
Establish comprehensive monitoring, alerting, and observability dashboards to catch bottlenecks before they impact production.
Partner with development teams to guide them on best practices for producing and consuming messages efficiently.

Requirements

Bring at least six years of professional software development and platform engineering experience to the table.
Demonstrate deep, hands-on knowledge of Apache Kafka internals, Zookeeper, KRaft, Kafka Connect, and ksqlDB.
Possess strong scripting and automation skills using tools like Terraform, Ansible, Python, or Go.
Understand modern cloud architectures and containerization platforms such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Hold U.S. citizenship, Green Card, valid EAD, or be eligible for an H-1B transfer, as we cannot sponsor new H-1B petitions for this opening.

What You'll Gain

A competitive salary ranging from $100,000 to $150,000 annually paid as a direct W2.
The ultimate flexibility of a fully remote position that you can work from anywhere in the United States.
Tremendous career growth potential within an established, well-respected technology consulting firm.
The chance to work on challenging, impactful data and AI projects that matter.