Kafka jobs in the United States.
Roles where it's part of the actual stack, not a passing mention.
- open roles
- 130
- fully remote
- 47
- median salary (USD)
- $214k
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130 open Kafka roles in the United States at 61 companies, most at Databricks, Verkada and ZoomInfo. 36% are fully remote. Here Kafka is most often paired with Kubernetes, Python, AWS and PostgreSQL.
- Staff Software Engineer, Tech Foundations$212k–$265ktoday
- Backend Software Engineer - University Graduate 2027$120k–$140ktoday
- Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Observability)$181k–$241k3d
- Senior Software Engineer$144k–$209k5d
- Senior Backend Engineer$160k–$260k5d
- Senior Solution Engineer$165k–$217k6d
- Software Engineer118k CAD–140k CAD10d
- Senior Software Engineer, Realtime Analytics Platform$243k–$295k13d
- Staff Data Engineer$213k–$255k13d
- Senior Software Engineer, Streaming Infrastructure$196k–$230k13d
- Engineering Manager - Financial Products13d
- Software Engineer III - Analytical Data$112k–$176k14d
- Senior Software Engineer - Data Automation$148k–$222k14d
- Software Engineer III$112k–$176k17d
- Staff Software Engineer, Platform & Infrastructure$240k–$400k17d
- Solutions Engineer18d
- Senior Engineering Manager - Tenant$285k–$320k20d
- Senior Data Engineer$205k–$230k20d
- Senior Data Engineer24d
- Systems Engineer - Data Security25d
- Senior Software Engineer - Accounting & Ledger Systems25d
- Principal Software Development Engineer (Microservices)$186k–$265k25d
- Lead Data Engineer$113k–$179k27d
- Senior Software Engineer, Data Platform$187k–$259k1mo
- Senior Cloud Engineer - Product Metrics (Remote)$155k–$230k1mo
- Site Reliability Engineer 2$123k–$150k1mo
- Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer$216k–$297k1mo
- Software Engineer II, Backend (Streaming)1mo
- Forward Deployed Engineer$180k–$225k1mo
- Senior Backend Software Engineer (E-Commerce)$173k–$214k1mo
- Senior Site Reliability Engineer, Databases$125k–$135k1mo
- Principal Software Engineer - Agentic Pipelines$264k–$380k1mo
- Senior Software Engineer I1mo
- Senior Backend Engineer - ClickPipes Platform$147k–$238k1mo
- Engineering Manager, Data Platform Foundations$281k–$334k1mo
- Senior Software Engineer - Safety Experience$196k–$245k1mo
- Sr. Solutions Engineer - Digital Native Business (Strategic Accounts)$152k–$209k1mo
- Senior Software Engineer$140k–$220k1mo
- Software Engineer - Data Platform$232k–$348k1mo
- Staff Software Engineer - Ingestion Platform$217k–$304k1mo
- Trading Analytics Developer, Quantitative Trading$100k–$120k1mo
- Lead Software Engineer, CICD$176k–$264k1mo
- Senior Software Engineer - DevOps/SRE1mo
- Senior Software Engineer, Platform$144k–$209k1mo
- GTM Business Systems Engineer, Quote-to-Cash$151k–$230k2mo
- Senior Data Engineer$191k–$239k2mo
- Staff Software Engineer, Enterprise Apps$218k–$257k2mo
- Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Communications Platform)$186k–$299k2mo
- Manager, Engineering, Secure Build and SCS Services (East Coast Preferred)$175k–$283k2mo
- Security Software Engineering Intern 20272mo
- Backend Software Engineering Intern 20272mo
- Senior Software Engineer, Data Infrastructure$200k–$400k2mo
- Engineering Manager - Issuing2mo
- Software Engineer II, Test Frameworks & Tooling$116k–$174k2mo
- Solutions Architect - Strategic High Tech$180k–$248k2mo
- Staff Software Engineer, MetalDev$207k–$275k2mo
- Principal Data Platform Architect$189k–$248k2mo
- Staff Software Engineer, Developer Experience€111k–€182k2mo
- Senior Software Engineer, Business Technology$144k–$209k2mo
- Senior Software Engineer, Product Platform$195k–$229k2mo
- Safety Engineer - Free Tier Abuse2mo
- Network DevOps Engineer, RDMA Fabric Automation - Multiple Openings$90k–$130k2mo
- Staff Software Engineer, Risk Data Engineering2mo
- Data Engineer - Infrastructure$175k–$225k2mo
- Senior Software Engineer - Messaging$191k–$267k3mo
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineer3mo
- Solutions Architect - Digital Native Business, Named Accounts$180k–$248k3mo
- Engineering Manager, Data Platform$215k–$260k3mo
- Staff Software Engineer, Service Infrastructure3mo
- Sr. Solutions Architect - Public Sector (Defense Industrial Base)$219k–$301k3mo
- Solutions Architect - Financial Services (Banking and Payments)$180k–$248k3mo
- Senior Software Engineer - Chorus$140k–$220k3mo
- Backend Engineer - Connectivity$125k–$160k3mo
- Software Engineer III - Data Acquisition$112k–$176k3mo
- Solutions Architect - Public Sector (SLED)$180k–$248k3mo
- Senior Software Engineer (Java)- US Remote$140k–$220k3mo
- Staff Platform Infrastructure Engineer$240k–$280k3mo
- Staff Software Engineer, API Platform3mo
- Senior Engineer I$215k–$254k3mo
- Senior Software Engineer - Integrations - AI/ML$147k–$238k3mo
- Engineering Manager, SupportX$171k–$248k3mo
- Senior Platform Software Engineer II4mo
- Software Engineer II, Data Enablement Platform$152k–$190k4mo
- Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure Security$148k–$222k4mo
- Senior Backend Engineer (Sports & Prediction Markets) – Golang$160k–$200k4mo
- Staff Software Engineer$218k–$257k4mo
- Sr. Manager – Data & AI Support Engineering5mo
- Software Engineer, Build Systems / CI$185k–$490k5mo
- Tech Lead Manager - Product Engineering (Identity Security)$187k–$270k5mo
- Staff Software Development Engineer (Microservices)$133k–$190k5mo
- Solutions Architect - Financial Services (Professional Services)$180k–$248k5mo
- Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)$160k–$220k6mo
- Staff Backend Engineer, Hierarchy$200k–$250k6mo
- Software Engineering Manager - Search$200k–$315k6mo
- Staff Engineer, Core Services Platform$225k–$278k6mo
- Sr Software Engineer, Infrastructure$160k–$220k6mo
- Billing & Analytics Software Engineer$180k–$245k6mo
- Senior Software Engineer - Data Platform$186k–$219k6mo
- Engineering Manager, Data Transformation6mo
- Senior Backend Software Engineer - Infrastructure$135k–$200k7mo