Senior Platform Kafka Engineer

Position

Senior Platform Kafka Engineer

Autheo (a Launch Legends company)

Cheyenne, WY (Remote part‑time equity co‑founder)

We are seeking an exceptional Senior Platform Kafka Engineer to join our pioneering team as an Equity Co‑Founder at the forefront of native blockchain execution. This role focuses on building a planetary‑scale encrypted Kafka backbone that moves 200 GB/s+ of blockchain events and delivers sub‑microsecond processing speeds.

• Design and operate Kafka clusters sustaining 1 B+ events/sec at < 0.4 µs p99 latency
• Build DAG‑based stream topologies with exactly‑once semantics and zero reprocessing
• Embed CKKS/BFV fully homomorphic encryption enabling processing on fully encrypted events
• Implement zk‑proof event provenance verifying 1–5 ms integrity for every message
• Deploy dynamic partition sharding across 10 000+ brokers with instant rebalancing
• Integrate SGX / Trust Zone enclaves for 1 TB‑scale encrypted log segments with remote attestation
• Ship ~80 % event compression while preserving post‑quantum security
• Deliver zero‑config Kafka SDKs (Rust/Go/Java) with built‑in encryption and proof generation
• Drive GPU‑accelerated parallel stream processing and AI‑driven consumer lag prediction

• Publish encrypted streaming and zk‑event breakthroughs at Kafka Summit, SIGMOD, SOSP
• Keynote at Kafka Summit 2026 on “1 Billion Encrypted Events/sec at Sub‑Microsecond Latency”

• 8+ years operating production Kafka clusters at ≥100 M EPS scale
• Multiple deployments achieving ≥500 M EPS with < 1 ms p99 latency
• Hands‑on FHE or zk‑proof integration into Kafka Streams / ksqlDB
• Deep expertise in tiered storage, KRaft, exactly‑once semantics, and multi‑region replication
• Proven operation of 5 000+ broker fleets

• Core contributor to Apache Kafka, Confluent, or Warp Stream
• First‑author papers at top data or systems venues
• Patents in encrypted streaming, zk‑event proofs, or stream sharding

• Production Kafka cluster hitting 1 B+ EPS at 0.4 µs processing
• Live FHE‑encrypted topics with compute‑on‑encrypted events
• zk‑proof provenance layer verifying every message in 1–5 ms
• Dynamic sharding live across 5 000+ brokers
• ~80 % compression pipeline preserving security
• Open‑source Rust Kafka client with encryption → 1 000+ stars
• Accepted paper + keynote at Kafka Summit 2026
• Top candidates: 6‑hour live Kafka architecture + Rust connector session building encrypted DAG streaming from scratch

This part‑time equity/token‑based co‑founder opportunity includes equity in Launch Legends, Autheo, and the WFO Creator Network, and token allocations in the Autheo blockchain. Salaried compensation is expected to begin within 4–5 months following funding rounds.