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Kafka is one of the most in-demand skills in the tech industry today. Companies across startups, scale-ups, and enterprises are actively hiring Kafka developers to build cutting-edge products and services. Currently, there are 1 open Kafka positions on LeetHire, with an average salary of $300k. On LeetHire, you can search for Kafka jobs anonymously—your current employer won't know you're looking. All listings show transparent salary ranges upfront, so you never waste time on positions that don't meet your expectations. Connect directly with hiring teams without dealing with third-party recruiters, and block specific companies from seeing your profile if needed. Finding the right Kafka role means matching more than just your technical skills. LeetHire helps you filter by compensation, work style, and company culture, all while keeping your job search completely confidential.
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Proxify
About us: Talent has no borders. Proxify's mission is to connect top developers around the world with the opportunities they deserve. So, it doesn't m...
Aptira
We're an Australian consulting company currently building out a multi region baremetal Kubernetes cluster for a client experiencing explosive growth a...
Healthesystems
Healthesystems is a specialty provider of innovative medical cost management solutions for the workers’ compensation industry. Our diverse suite of se...
Procore
Procore (NYSE: PCOR) builds the most widely used construction management platform in the world. Our software connects every stakeholder on a construct...
Staff / Principal Product, Backend, Distributed Systems Engineers @Artemis in NYC
Hiring 7+yrs Senior or Staff Engineers who want to be founding members at our Stealth AI-security startup (seed $15M). Stack: Python/Node/Rust, React...
Proxify
About us: Talent has no borders. Proxify's mission is to connect top developers around the world with the opportunities they deserve. So, it doesn't...
Proxify
About us: Talent has no borders. Proxify's mission is to connect top developers around the world with opportunities they deserve. So, it doesn't mat...
BNSF Railway
The range represents the amount bnsf | tech reasonably expects to pay for the position based on the level, scope, and responsibilities of the role. I...
Proxify
About us: Talent has no borders. Proxify's mission is to connect top developers around the world with the opportunities they deserve. So, it doesn't m...
Unknown
Headquarters: Miami, FL, USA URL: http://ebgsolutions.com Company DescriptionEBG is an e-commerce solutions provider specializing in travel and entert...
BNSF Railway
The range represents the amount bnsf | tech reasonably expects to pay for the position based on the level, scope, and responsibilities of the role. I...
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View Kafka Salary Guide →Apache Kafka is a distributed event streaming platform used for high-throughput, fault-tolerant messaging, data pipelines, and event-driven architectures at massive scale. It's become the backbone of real-time data infrastructure. Companies hire Kafka engineers for real-time data pipelines, event-driven microservices, log aggregation, and systems requiring reliable messaging at scale. Kafka developers work with producers, consumers, topics, partitions, Kafka Streams, and Connect. Kafka developer salaries range from $105k to $180k+ with strong demand in data-intensive organizations. LeetHire connects Kafka engineers through practical assessments.
Kafka concepts are straightforward, but production operations are complex. Understanding partitioning, consumer groups, and exactly-once semantics requires hands-on experience.
For high-throughput event streaming, decoupling microservices, real-time data pipelines, and systems needing durable message logs. Simpler queues (RabbitMQ, SQS) suit basic messaging.
Kafka expertise adds value to data engineering and backend roles. Engineers with strong Kafka skills typically earn $105k-$180k+ depending on overall role scope.
Java/Scala for native development, Kafka Streams or Flink for processing, schema registries (Avro), monitoring, and understanding distributed systems concepts.