(1470) Senior Kafka Engineer

Join Nortal for your next big adventure. We are seeking a Senior Kafka Engineer to join our team, grow with us, and teach us a few things along the way. 

Why join Nortal 

• Say Goodbye to Micromanagement: We champion autonomy, open communication, and respect for diversity as our core values. 

• Outcomes Over Hours: We believe in a work model focused on impact, providing you with the flexibility to balance your professional success with your personal well-being. 

• Vibrant Community: Join our close-knit LATAM remote team and connect through tech talks, virtual coffee breaks, and team-building activities. 
• Support from Day One: Our People Care team is here to support you throughout your journey, from wellness check-ins to professional growth. 

Our benefits ✨ 

• Competitive USD salary. 

• 100% remote work: While you can work from anywhere, you’re always welcome to connect with teammates and grow your network at our coworking spaces across LATAM. 

• Paid off & national holidays: Take the time you need according to your country’s regulations while receiving your full salary. 

• Sick leave: Focus on your health without stress. Take the necessary time to recover and feel better. 

• Annual credit: Spend it on the perks you love to enhance your work-life balance. 

• Team-building activities: Join us for coffee breaks, tech talks, and after-work gatherings to bond with your Nortal family and feel part of our vibrant community. 
• Birthday off: Enjoy an extra day off during your birthday week to celebrate in style with friends and family. 

About the project 

As a Senior Kafka Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and optimizing our event-driven architecture and real-time data streaming pipelines. You will be responsible for ensuring the scalability, reliability, and security of our Kafka clusters while collaborating closely with cross-functional engineering teams to implement high-throughput data solutions. As a senior member of the team, you will also mentor junior engineers, establish best practices for data streaming, and drive the technical evolution of our event-driven ecosystem.  

What you’ll do 

• Review and assess the current Kafka architecture and event-driven ecosystem. 

• Provide recommendations for improving scalability, reliability, maintainability, and operational efficiency. 

• Evaluate and optimize topic design, partitioning strategies, retention policies, and consumer patterns. 

• Advise on event modeling, message payload design, and schema evolution strategies. 

• Analyze performance bottlenecks and recommend solutions for throughput, latency, and resource utilization. 

• Identify and resolve data retention, replay, and storage management challenges. 

• Guide enterprise-scale Kafka deployments using AWS MSK and Confluent Platform. 

• Review and recommend best practices for event sourcing and event-driven architecture implementations. 

• Assess Kafka Connect integrations and connector configurations. 

• Collaborate with engineering teams to establish architectural standards and operational best practices. 

• Mentor internal teams and transfer knowledge to support long-term platform success. 

What makes you a great fit 🎯 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. 

• 8+ Years of software engineering, platform engineering, or distributed systems experience. 

• 5+ Years of experience designing and implementing Apache Kafka solutions in production environments. 

• Strong experience working with Apache Kafka. 

• Experience working with the Confluent Platform. 

• Solid experience working with AWS MSK. 

• Hands-on experience working with Kafka Connect. 

• Experience working with Schema Registry. 

• Strong experience designing and implementing event-driven architectures. 

• Practical experience with Event Sourcing patterns and distributed system design. 

• Proven experience supporting high-volume, enterprise-scale Kafka environments. 
• Advanced English Level is required for this role, as you will work with US clients. Effective communication in English is essential to deliver the best solutions to our clients and expand your horizons.  

Global Impact, Local Culture 🌍 

For over 25 years, we’ve been shaping digital transformation, delivering complex solutions for global enterprises and public sector organizations. Today, we are at the forefront of an AI-driven transformation era, helping organizations turn data into real business value. By combining deep domain expertise with data and AI, we design solutions that create immediate impact while scaling for the future. 

We believe complexity doesn’t have to mean complicated, and that the best solutions are those that work in the real world, not just on paper. That’s why our clients trust us with their most ambitious, business-critical initiatives. 

Apply now and let’s shape the future of technology together! 🧑‍💻