Title: Python Kafka Developer
Location: Only local to Bellevue WA
Note: Candidate should have strong experience with Kafka Development.
What You'll Do
- Support real-time data processing pipelines with low-latency, high-throughput, and fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Ability to independently handle the installation of Hadoop and Kafka clusters
- Troubleshoot networking and environment issues.
- Experience with the automation of installation and setup of Kafka clusters
- Expertise in UNIX, Shell scripting, Ansible
- Develop and maintain event-driven messaging frameworks using Apache Kafka or similar technologies to enable microservices to communicate data through events
Must Have Skills
- Proficiency with messaging and event-driven systems such as Kafka
- Expert-level proficiency in Python and Java object-oriented programming
- Strong experience with Python or Java object-oriented programming
- Hands-on experience with UNIX/Linux environments and expert-level Bash shell scripting for automation and pipeline orchestration
- Automate manual processes and operational workflows using Bash shell scripting in UNIX environments
- Build responsive, accessible, and performant applications, delivering end-to-end features across API and data layers
- Experience building scalable REST APIs and microservices
- Knowledge of TLS/SSL encryption and SASL authentication for securing Kafka clusters
- Experience with Git, GitLab, and CI/CD automation
- Experience working with relational databases and writing complex SQL
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Experience using observability and telemetry tools such as Splunk, AppDynamics, or Grafana
- Hands-on experience with AI productivity tools (Claude and Cursor or similar IDE) and working knowledge of foundation models, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and AI agent development.