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Kafka Engineer

at Fractal

Bengaluru, India Mid Posted 2026-04-25

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It's fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they are doing! We're committed to bringing passion and customer focus to the business. Job Summary We are looking for a skilled Kafka Engineer with hands-on experience in Confluent Platform to design, build, and maintain high-performance, real-time data streaming pipelines. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Kafka ecosystem components and be well-versed in deploying and scaling Kafka clusters, both on-prem and in cloud environments. Key Responsibilities Design, build, and manage Kafka and Confluent infrastructure for high throughput streaming applications Implement Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and KSQL (KSQLDB), FlinkSQL Ensure high availability, performance tuning, and monitoring of Kafka clusters Collaborate with data engineers and backend teams to integrate streaming pipelines with data lakes, warehouses. Set up and enforce Kafka security mechanisms (SASL, SSL, ACLs, RBAC) Create and manage CI/CD pipelines for Kafka components using tools like Git, Jenkins, etc. Monitor and troubleshoot issues using tools like Confluent Control Center, DataDog Required Skills Experience in Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform Experience with Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, Schema Registry, KSQL, and FlinkSQL Strong background in Java or Python Good understanding of stream processing and event-driven architecture Hands-on experience with cloud platforms: AWS / Azure / GCP (esp. Confluent Cloud) Proficient in Kafka cluster deployment, tuning, and maintenance Familiarity with CI/CD, Git, Helm, and Kubernetes Nice to Have Knowledge of Terraform, Pulumi, or other Infra as Code tools Exposure to DataOps / Data Engineering ecosystems If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us! Not the right fit?  Let us know you're interested in a future opportunity by clicking   Introduce Yourself   in the top-right corner of the page or create an account to set up email alerts as new job postings become available that meet your interest!

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