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Kafka Engineer Jobs
Kafka is the event-streaming backbone of most Fortune 500 real-time data platforms. ApTask places senior Kafka engineers, Confluent platform leads, and streaming-data architects who can design and operate high-throughput event-driven systems. Roles include streaming platform engineers, event-driven architects, Confluent Cloud specialists and data engineers with Kafka Streams and KSQL depth.
12 live roles in adjacent skills
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- 2 days ago
Data Analyst
Onsite contract role in Atlanta, GA, paying $45–$50/hr. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
Atlanta, GA · Onsite$45–$50/hr - 3 days ago
Data Governance / Alation Analyst
Onsite contract role in Multiple locations, US. Compensation is discussed at interview. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
Multiple locations, US · OnsiteCompensation discussed at interview - 6 days ago
Data Engineer
Onsite contract role in Multiple locations, US, paying $70–$75/hr. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
Multiple locations, US · Onsite$70–$75/hr - 2 weeks ago
Data Scientist
Onsite contract role in Atlanta, GA, paying $65–$70/hr. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
Atlanta, GA · Onsite$65–$70/hr - 3 weeks ago
Quality Assurance Data Analyst
Onsite contract role in Beaverton, OR, paying $33–$38/hr. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
Beaverton, OR · Onsite$33–$38/hr - 3 weeks ago
Senior Business Data Analyst (Manufacturing Domain)
Onsite contract role in Easton, PA, paying $55–$60/hr. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
Easton, PA · Onsite$55–$60/hr - 3 weeks ago
Data Scientist
Remote full-time role (US), paying $130,000–$150,000/yr. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
Remote (US) · Remote$130,000–$150,000/yr - 3 weeks ago
Data Engineer with GCP and PySpark
Onsite contract role in Irving, TX, paying $55–$60/hr. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
Irving, TX · Onsite$55–$60/hr - 3 weeks ago
Data Mesh / Enterprise Architect
Onsite contract role in New York City, NY. Compensation is discussed at interview. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
New York City, NY · OnsiteCompensation discussed at interview - 3 weeks ago
Senior Data Scientist
Remote full-time role in NEW YORK, NY, paying $140,000–$150,000/yr. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
NEW YORK, NY · Remote$140,000–$150,000/yr - 3 weeks ago
Data Science- (GNN) & Graph Machine Learning
Onsite contract role in Multiple locations, US, paying $50–$60/hr. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
Multiple locations, US · Onsite$50–$60/hr - 1 month ago
Data Scientist with Graph Neural Networks AND Machine Learning
Onsite contract role in Charlotte, NC, paying $50–$55/hr. An ApTask vertical recruiter manages your submission on this live client requisition.
Charlotte, NC · Onsite$50–$55/hr
About Kafka Engineer roles at ApTask
What Kafka roles does ApTask place?
Streaming platform engineers, event-driven architects, Confluent Cloud specialists, and data engineers with Kafka Streams / KSQL depth.
What bill rates are typical?
Senior Kafka engineers bill $115-$155/hr. Confluent platform leads and streaming architects: $145-$185/hr.
How do Kafka Engineer rates compare with national wage data?
The closest occupation the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics tracks for Kafka Engineer roles is software developers, which had a median annual wage of 135,980 US dollars in May 2025 (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, page last modified August 27, 2026). BLS reports the median wage of all employees in that occupation nationwide; the amounts elsewhere on this page are whatever each ApTask posting or FAQ answer states for itself, so read the BLS figure as national context rather than a like-for-like comparison.
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