kaRole: Confluent Kafka Architect •Strong fundamentals in distributed systems design and operations, microservice architecture, integration patterns •Deep understanding of different messaging paradigms (pub/sub, queuing), as well as delivery models, quality-of-service, and fault-tolerance architectures •Established track record with Kafka technology, with hands-on production experience and a deep understanding of the Kafka architecture and internals of how it works, along with interplay of architectural components: brokers, Zookeeper, producers/consumers, Kafka Connect, Kafka Streams •Practical experience with how to scale Kafka, KStreams, and Connector infrastructures. •Experience with Kafka Streams / KSQL architecture and associated clustering model. •Hands-on experience as a developer who has used the Kafka API to build producer and consumer applications, along with expertise in implementing KStreams components. •Have developed KStreams pipelines, as well as deployed KStreams cluste...