Senior Kafka Engineer ON SITE CDMX

Important IT company At the Latin American level, growth requires

Senior Kafka Engineer

We are looking for a Senior Kafka Engineer with experience in Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform to design and implement event-driven integration solutions, ensuring scalable, reliable, and high-performance messaging platforms.

Responsibilities;

• Design and implement solutions using Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform.
• Develop Kafka producers and consumers using Java and Spring Kafka.
• Define topics, partitions, keys, retention policies, and consumer strategies.
• Implement Schema Registry and event serialization using Avro, Protobuf, or JSON Schema.
• Design solutions using messaging patterns such as At-Least-Once, Exactly-Once, Idempotency, Retries, and Dead Letter Queues (DLQ).
• Implement Kafka Connect integrations.
• Monitor and optimize consumer lag, throughput, and event traceability.
• Collaborate with Architecture, Development, and Data teams to establish Kafka best practices.

Required Qualifications;

• 3+ years of experience working with Apache Kafka.
• Hands-on experience with Confluent Platform.
• Strong Java and Spring Kafka experience.
• Experience with Schema Registry.
• Experience with Avro, Protobuf, or JSON Schema.
• Experience with Kafka Connect.
• Knowledge of Event-Driven Architecture and Microservices.
• Understanding of Kafka concepts including topics, partitions, offsets, consumer groups, and delivery semantics.
• Experience with Git/Bitbucket, Jira, and Confluence.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Kafka Streams.
• Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.
• Experience with observability tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, or Grafana.
• Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

Key Skills

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to design scalable solutions.
• Strong technical communication skills.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams.

• ADVANCED CONVERSATIONAL ENGLISH AND SPANISH ESSENTIAL (Will be evaluated).
• If you are a foreingner residing in Mexico, you must have a valid INE, CURP, NSS and RFC.
• Job type : ON SITE

Location : Mexico

• Salary : $78,000 gross
• Benefits : Excellent superior benefits.