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Fractal · Bangalore

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Kafka Engineer at Fractal

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.

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

Preferred qualifications and skills

  • 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!
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Employment details

  • Location: Bengaluru [India]

Additional role details

  • 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.