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Kafka Engineer – Code Changes & Non-Functional Testing
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Kafka Engineer – Code Changes & Non-Functional Testing
Location: London, UK (Hybrid 2-3 days/week)
Contract: 4 Months
Start Date: Immediately
Role Overview
Seeking a Kafka Engineer responsible for implementing code enhancements, optimizing event-driven systems, and performing non-functional testing to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability of Kafka-based platforms.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop and enhance Kafka components including producers, consumers, topics, and streams.
- Optimize event-driven pipelines, message flows, and distributed system performance.
- Ensure backward compatibility and minimal impact during code changes.
- Design and execute non-functional testing (performance, load, stress, endurance).
- Validate scalability, throughput, latency, durability, and fault tolerance.
- Monitor Kafka clusters, brokers, partitions, offsets, and consumer lag.
- Identify bottlenecks and provide performance tuning recommendations.
- Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams for deployments and optimization.
- Document technical changes, test outcomes, and improvement areas.
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Required Skills & Experience
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- Strong hands-on experience with Apache Kafka (Producers, Consumers, Topics, Partitions, Streams).
- Proficiency in Java, Python, or Scala for Kafka development.
- Experience with distributed systems, event-driven architecture, and streaming platforms.
- Hands-on experience with performance testing tools such as JMeter or Gatling.
- Knowledge of Kafka tuning parameters (batch size, linger.ms, compression, etc.).
- Experience with monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Splunk.
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and deployment practices.
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