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Senior Kafka Engineer

Fortune Global Solutions, LLCIrvine, CA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 7 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role at Fortune Global Solutions offers a fantastic opportunity to lead impactful platform engineering initiatives and solve complex distributed systems challenges using your extensive Kafka and AWS expertise. You'll thrive here if you're a seasoned engineer who enjoys automation, SRE practices, and building self-service platforms, and you're encouraged to apply to shape the future of their API platform.

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Irvine, CA, United States
Posted
Yesterday
SAFeAgile

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Kafka Engineer

Location: Irvine, CA

Duration: Long term Contract

Required Experience: 12+ years


The candidate will Deliver API - Platform Engineering by leading solution initiatives. Recommend and re-engineer solutions to address complex incidents/issues. Advanced troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and recommending solutions/fixing bugs. Identify toil and recommend/develop automation solutions. Understand business requirements and provide solutions through the self-service platform. Participate in piloting new products.
Qualifications:

  • Strong experience with Kafka and AWS cloud, including experience in building and operating solutions for high-scale distributed systems.
  • Prior experience with enabling "Observability using tools for Distributed tracing, Event logging, APM Synthetic monitoring.
  • Understanding of SRE Practices.
  • Experience in Automation.
  • Experience in building self-service platforms.
  • Prior experience with web services and messaging protocols.
  • Prior experience with Infrastructure as Code with Ansible and Terraform, OpenShift/Kubernetes.
  • Prior experience with public cloud providers (AWS).
  • Ability to collaborate with teams and impact decisions at the interpersonal level.

Nice to have:

  • Understanding of SDLC, SAFe terminologies, Agile development methodology.
  • Experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Git.

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