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Partitioning and throughput
Partition keys chosen for ordering and even load, consumer groups sized to match, and producer batching tuned with measurements.
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Hire senior Apache Kafka and event streaming engineers
Streaming engineers who design Kafka topics, schemas and consumers that hold up under real traffic — partitioned for ordering, replicated for durability, and observable when they fall behind.
Role profile
What we look for in a Senior Apache Kafka Streaming Engineer
Seniority and experience are agreed in the proposal, and you interview every engineer before they start. These are the skills that interview should test.
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Schema evolution
Avro or Protobuf schemas with compatibility rules enforced by Schema Registry in CI, so producers can't break consumers.
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Change data capture
Debezium streaming PostgreSQL or MySQL changes into Kafka, with the outbox pattern where events must match committed transactions.
Typical work
What a Senior Apache Kafka Streaming Engineer typically works on
Examples of the scope this role is hired for. Your statement of work sets the actual deliverables and how they are accepted.
- 01An event backbone connecting services asynchronously
- 02CDC pipelines for database migrations and read models
- 03Stream processing for fraud scoring with Flink
- 04Multi-region replication with failover runbooks
Stack and tools
What this role works with day to day. Tell us your stack and we’ll say plainly which parts we can staff.
- Apache Kafka
- Confluent Cloud
- Kafka Connect
- Schema Registry
- Debezium
- Flink
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How hiring works
Four steps, agreed in writing before anyone starts
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Tell us the role
The stack, the seniority you need, the hours you want covered, and any certifications the work requires. We reply within one business day.
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We propose engineers
A written proposal sets out who we'd put forward, their seniority and experience, the scope, and the terms. If we can't staff the role well, we say so.
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You interview every engineer
Nobody starts on your codebase until you've interviewed them and agreed. Use the skills on the role page as your interview checklist.
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Working arrangements go in the SOW
Working-hours overlap is agreed for each engagement and written into the statement of work — the shared window, who shifts hours, and how handoffs work outside it.
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Need specific certifications? Tell us at the start and we'll confirm whether we can staff to that requirement before you sign. There are no recruiting fees.
FAQ
Questions about hiring a Senior Apache Kafka Streaming Engineer
Answered the way we would on a call. If yours isn’t here, send it — we reply within one business day.
RabbitMQ is a message broker that removes messages once they're acknowledged. Kafka is a replicated, append-only log: consumers track their own position, so many independent groups can read and replay the same events.
Kafka guarantees order within a partition. Messages with the same key go to the same partition, so per-key ordering holds as long as the key is chosen well and producers have idempotence enabled.
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