Associate Consulting Engineer

As a Consulting Engineer, you'll play a pivotal role in driving customer success by:

• Providing deep technical expertise: Leverage your knowledge of Kafka, Confluent Platform, and related systems (Hadoop, Spark, Storm, databases) to advise clients.exclamation

• Building strong relationships: Collaborate effectively with customers to understand their needs and deliver exceptional service.

• Delivering state-of-the-art solutions: Design and implement cutting-edge streaming data architectures alongside industry leaders.exclamation

• Sharing your knowledge: Contribute to the developer community through blog posts, presentations, or open-source projects (optional).

Responsibilities:

• Pre-engagement: Discuss client goals, expectations, and prepare engagement plans.

• Research: Identify best practices and components for upcoming engagements.

• On-site Delivery: Conduct workshops with client architects and developers.exclamation

• Post-engagement: Deliver reports and ensure customer satisfaction.exclamation

• Development & Operations:

  • Develop applications on the Confluent Kafka Platform.

  • Deploy, manage, and upgrade Kafka clusters.

  • Build internal tools for other teams.

• Testing & Documentation:

  • Test performance and functionality of new software components.

  • Contribute to technical documentation and knowledge base articles.

• Continuous Learning: Stay at the forefront by building applications or exploring new features.

Qualifications:

• Experience in building and operating big data, stream processing, and enterprise data integration solutions using Apache Kafka.

• Proficiency in Linux administration (RedHat and Debian-based distributions).exclamation

• Experience with Java Virtual Machine (JVM) tuning and troubleshooting.

• Solid understanding of distributed systems (Kafka, Hadoop, Cassandra, etc.).

• Strong Java programming skills.

• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) for explaining complex technical concepts.

• Ability and willingness to travel up to 50% of the time.exclamation

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a quantitative field (preferred).exclamation

Bonus points for:

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) for high-throughput systems.

• Experience building Kafka solutions with Hadoop, databases, message queues, etc.

• Experience with Python, Scala, or Go programming languages.

• Experience with configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef).exclamation

• Experience with network-based APIs (REST/JSON or XML/SOAP).

• Knowledge of enterprise security practices (LDAP, Kerberos).

• Experience working in a commercial technology environment with business acumen.

• Experience in a fast-paced startup environment.

• Project management skills using any known methodology.