Software Enginer - Kafka Security Clearance

Position: Software Enginer - Kafka with Security Clearance
Software Engineer – Distributed Systems & Apache Kafka
Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and maintain highly scalable Apache Kafka streaming systems to support near real-time data ingestion and processing across distributed environments

• Define and develop comprehensive technical onboarding requirements for new data types, ensuring seamless integration and compatibility with existing streaming infrastructure

• Develop and maintain robust metrics reporting for Kafka services, including end-to-end latency, throughput, and operational status to drive performance visibility and proactive issue resolution
Qualifications/

Skills Required:

• TS/SCI with CI Poly required
• Must be willing to work in SCIF daily or as needed

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with cloud-first development approach

• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS CDK for Infrastructure as Code

• 3+ years building complex, reusable CDK constructs and stacks

• Proficiency in async programming and performance optimization
* 3+ years implementing multi-environment deployment strategies using CDK

• 5+ years of advanced Python development experience

• API design and versioning (preferably with Apache Kafka)

• 4+ years of data engineering experience

• ETL/ELT pipeline development using AWS services

• Experience with data lakes, data warehousing, and analytics platforms
o Real-time data processing and streaming architectures

• 3+ years with AWS cloud-native services
o Advanced knowledge of Lambda, API Gateway, Event Bridge, SQS, SNS
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Experience with data services: RDS, Dynamo

DB, Redshift, S3, Athena
o Container orchestration with ECS, Fargate, or EKS

• Strong problem-solving abilities with proven track record of resolving complex technical challenges