We are seeking a highly skilled Confluent Kafka Customer Engineer (CE) / Solutions Engineer (SE) to join our dynamic team in the Exton, PA. This role is ideal for someone with deep expertise in Confluent Platform and Apache Kafka, and a strong background in Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and Real-Time Data Streaming.
Key Responsibilities:
Serve as a technical expert and trusted advisor for customers evaluating or deploying Confluent and Kafka-based solutions.
Design, implement, and support event-driven architectures that enable real-time data processing and analytics.
Collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements and provide technical solutions tailored to their business needs.
Lead technical workshops, POCs, demos, and architectural reviews.
Assist customers in performance tuning, capacity planning, and optimizing Kafka clusters for reliability and scalability.
Educate and guide customers on best practices for data streaming, integration, and modern application development using Kafka and Confluent.
Required Skills and Experience:
Mastery of Apache Kafka and Confluent Platform, including Schema Registry, ksqlDB, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams, and Confluent Control Center.
Proven experience designing and deploying Event-Driven Architectures in production environments.
Strong understanding of real-time data pipelines, stream processing, and integration patterns.
Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization tools like Docker and Kubernetes.
Excellent communication and customer-facing skills; ability to translate complex technical concepts to a business audience.
Hands-on scripting or development experience in Java, Python, or similar languages is a plus.