Kafka/Flink Engineer

Red Rocket Software is looking for an experienced Kafka/Flink Engineer to join our core engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design and optimize streaming data pipelines
• Configure and maintain Kafka topics, partitions, consumer groups, and schema registry
• Build and maintain Flink jobs (event processing, transformation, enrichment, aggregation)
• Ensure system stability, scalability, and low latency
• Implement fault-tolerance and exactly-once semantics
• Collaborate with Data Engineers, Backend Developers, and DevOps teams
• Contribute to documentation and architectural standards

 Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Apache Flink
• Strong understanding of stream processing concepts (state, offset management, partitioning)
• Experience in building real-time data pipelines in AWS / GCP / Kubernetes environments
• Solid background in Java or Scala
• Experience with CI/CD and containerized deployments
• English level — Upper-Intermediate+