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Lead Kafka Developer

System One Pittsburgh, PA

Pittsburgh, PA

1mo ago Closed

Contract Data Architecture Data Engineer Data Integration

This position is no longer accepting applications (closed Jun 24, 2026).

Job Description

System One invites a Lead Kafka Developer to join onsite in Pittsburgh, PA on a contract engagement. The role focuses on designing, building, and operating Kafka based streaming architectures, while guiding engineering teams through complex production challenges. The company emphasizes a collaborative, engineering-first culture and offers robust benefits and a 401(k) plan to support long-term career growth in high-throughput data systems.

Responsibilities

Design and develop Kafka based streaming architectures and data pipelines
Manage Kafka cluster setup, configuration, tuning, monitoring, and upgrades
Define standards for topic design, schema management, security, and reliability
Collaborate with platform, application, and data engineering teams
Troubleshoot complex production issues and perform root cause analysis
Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and code reviews for developers
Support enterprise event driven solutions and scalable messaging systems

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
Strong enterprise Kafka engineering experience
Experience operating Kafka in production environments
Deep expertise in distributed systems, event driven architecture, Kafka operations, and high throughput data streaming solutions
Proficiency with Apache Kafka (Producers, Consumers, Streams, Connectors)
Kafka Production Support & Administration
Java and/or Scala (Python is a plus)
Distributed Systems & Messaging Architectures
Event Driven Architecture
Kafka Monitoring & Performance Optimization
Schema Registry Experience
Soft Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication, strong leadership and collaboration abilities, problem solving and troubleshooting expertise, ability to mentor and guide engineering teams

Technologies

Apache Kafka
Kafka Producers
Kafka Consumers
Kafka Streams
Kafka Connectors
Schema Registry
Java
Scala
Python

Location

Pittsburgh, PA onsite

Benefits

Health and welfare benefits coverage options including medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, life insurance, voluntary plans
Participation in a 401(k) plan

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