Senior Streaming Engineer (Kafka & GCP)-Onshore

Required Skills & Experience

-5+ years in software, data or platform engineering -Strong hands-on experience with Kafka, Kafka Streams and Pub/Sub in production -Experience building and operating solutions on GCP -Solid grasp of event-driven design, messaging patterns, scalability and fault tolerance -Experience with CI/CD, automated deployments and release management -A track record of owning production systems and solving problems under pressure

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

-Java, Python or Scala for streaming development -Dataflow, BigQuery, Cloud Run, GKE or Cloud Functions -Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes -Avro and Schema Registry -Monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or Splunk

Job Description

About the Opportunity A Fortune 500 retail leader is growing its real-time data capabilities and needs a hands-on streaming engineer to help build and run them. You'll join an enterprise data team that supports sales and customer analytics. Your work will move high-volume events across one of the largest retail operations in the country. This seat suits someone who likes owning a pipeline from first commit through production support.

What You'll Do:

-Build and maintain real-time pipelines using Apache Kafka, Kafka Streams and Google Cloud Pub/Sub. -Develop event-driven, cloud-native applications on Google Cloud Platform. -Deploy and manage applications across dev, test and production through CI/CD pipelines and automated releases. -Monitor, troubleshoot and tune streaming workloads for reliability and performance. -Run root cause analysis and fix production issues on business-critical systems. -Contribute to architecture discussions as the streaming platform evolves.

Why This Role:

You'll do real ownership work on streaming systems that run at national retail scale. The modern GCP stack sits inside a company that's investing heavily in Google Cloud and AI. You'll work onsite with an engineering team that values technical depth and accountability.