Kafka jobs in Chicago
45 open roles in Chicago asking for Kafka, at 18 companies, from company job boards. Newest first; open a listing to apply on the employer's own site.
This market right now
Who is hiring: JPMorgan (16), Braze (3), Databricks (3), IMC (3), NinjaTrader (3), Salesforce (3), Adyen (2), Motorolasolutions (2) and others.
What Kafka roles in Chicago keep asking for: Java (60%), AWS (58%), Agile (47%), CI/CD (47%), Kubernetes (47%), Python (40%), SQL (38%) — counted across the newest postings here.
Kafka jobs elsewhere
- All Kafka jobs3,081 open
- Kafka jobs in the United States1073 open
- Kafka jobs in India553 open
- Kafka jobs in the United Kingdom280 open
- Kafka jobs in Germany273 open
- Kafka jobs in Bengaluru261 open
- Kafka jobs in London192 open
- Kafka jobs in New York147 open
- Kafka jobs in Canada122 open
- Kafka jobs in San Francisco105 open
- Kafka jobs in Berlin83 open
- Kafka jobs in France79 open
- Kafka jobs in Hyderabad77 open
- Kafka jobs in Seattle61 open
- Kafka jobs in Singapore58 open
- Kafka jobs in Pune58 open
- Kafka jobs in Paris57 open
- Kafka jobs in the Netherlands55 open
- Kafka jobs in Ireland53 open
- Kafka jobs in Toronto48 open
- Kafka jobs in Brazil44 open
- Kafka jobs in Austin44 open
- Kafka jobs in Amsterdam42 open
- Kafka jobs in Dublin39 open
- Kafka jobs in Delhi NCR39 open
- Kafka jobs in Spain36 open
- Kafka jobs in Poland31 open
- Kafka jobs in Mexico30 open
- Kafka jobs in Israel30 open
- Kafka jobs in Boston29 open
- Kafka jobs in the Czechia28 open
- Kafka jobs in Munich22 open
- Kafka jobs in Mumbai22 open
- Kafka jobs in Chennai21 open
- Kafka jobs in Australia20 open
- Kafka jobs in Thailand18 open
- Kafka jobs in Tel Aviv18 open
- Kafka jobs in Switzerland18 open
- Kafka jobs in Romania18 open
- Kafka jobs in Palo Alto18 open
- Kafka jobs in Mountain View18 open
- Kafka jobs in Mexico City18 open
- Kafka jobs in Bangkok18 open
- Kafka jobs in Atlanta18 open
- Kafka jobs in San Jose17 open
- Kafka jobs in Sunnyvale16 open
- Kafka jobs in Prague15 open
- Kafka jobs in Hong Kong15 open
- Kafka jobs in Portugal14 open
- Kafka jobs in Dallas14 open
- Kafka jobs in Argentina14 open
- Kafka jobs in Vancouver13 open
- Kafka jobs in Madrid12 open
- Kafka jobs in China12 open
- Kafka jobs in Barcelona12 open
- Kafka jobs in São Paulo11 open
- Kafka jobs in Krakow11 open
- Kafka jobs in Houston11 open
- Kafka jobs in Denver11 open
- Kafka jobs in Sydney10 open
- Kafka jobs in Hamburg10 open
- Kafka jobs in Finland10 open
- Remote Kafka jobs635 open
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Find jobs that fit my CV- Senior Manager, Data EngineeringJll · Chicago, IL · 2026-11-12
- Sr. Solutions EngineerDatabricks · Chicago, Illinois; Remote - California; Remote - New York; United States · 2026-11-10
- Lead Software EngineerJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-11-06
- Senior Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales)MongoDB · Chicago · 2026-11-05
- Lead Software Engineer - Java with Agentic AIJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States, Plano, TX, United States · 2026-11-04
- Lead Software Engineer-Java with Agentic AIJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States, Plano, TX, United States · 2026-11-04
- Software Engineer III - Java with Agentic AIJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States, Plano, TX, United States · 2026-11-04
- Solution Architect-North CentralClickhouse · Chicago, Minneapolis · 2026-11-02
- Lead Software Engineer -Full stack, Java, AI, and ReactJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-10-30
- Lead Software Engineer – Identity Platform ServicesSalesforce · California - San Francisco, California - Palo Alto, Illinois - Chicago, New York - New York, Washington - Seattle, Indiana - Indianapolis · 2026-10-30
- Software Engineering Architect — Digital Marketing TechnologySalesforce · Washington - Seattle, California - Palo Alto, Illinois - Chicago, New York - New York, Indiana - Indianapolis, California - San Francisco · 2026-10-30
- Software Engineer III - Java / KafkaJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-10-29
- IT Director, Data & AI ArchitectureAbbott · United States - Illinois - Waukegan, United States - Illinois - Chicago · 2026-10-29
- Senior Software EngineerCat · Chicago, Illinois · 2026-10-29
- Senior Software Engineer II, Decisioning Studio Integrations TeamBraze · Chicago · 2026-10-21
- Principal Software Engineer - Performance EngineeringJPMorgan · Palo Alto, CA, United States, New York, NY, United States, Chicago, IL, United States, Jersey City, NJ, United States · 2026-10-20
- Engineering Manager - Financial ProductsAdyen · Chicago · 2026-10-19
- Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack JavaJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-10-16
- Solutions EngineerDatabricks · Chicago, Illinois · 2026-10-15
- Lead Software Engineer - Full Stack JavaJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-10-14
- Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Data 360Salesforce · New York - New York, Illinois - Chicago, Washington - Seattle, Washington - Bellevue, Texas - Dallas, Colorado - Denver, Georgia - Atlanta, Indiana - Indianapolis, Virginia - Mclean, Texas - Austin, California - San Francisco · 2026-10-14
- Senior Manager, Software Engineering (Chicago Hybrid)Motorolasolutions · Chicago, IL · 2026-10-14
- Senior Applied AI Engineer – Supply ChainMotorolasolutions · Chicago, IL · 2026-10-14
- Senior Lead Software Engineer - Java, Prime Financial Services TechnologyJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-10-13
- Senior Manager of Software Engineering - Enterprise TechnologyJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-10-08
- Consulting Field Solutions Architect - AI/Analytics - North Central EnterpriseEverpure · Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Indianapolis, Indiana; Kansas City, Kansas; Minneapolis, Minnesota; St. Louis, Missouri · 2026-10-07
- Lead Software Engineer - Java, AI, Spring Boot and KafkaJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-10-06
- Lead Software Engineer - Java Spring BootJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-10-06
- Senior Software Engineer IBraze · Chicago · 2026-09-23
- Lead Software Engineer - Reference Data EngineeringJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-09-22
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML PlatformBraze · Chicago · 2026-09-16
- Java Lead Software EngineerJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-09-11
- Engineering Manager - IssuingAdyen · Chicago · 2026-08-24
- Lead Software Engineer - Java Full Stack, AI, Spring BootJPMorgan · Chicago, IL, United States · 2026-08-14
- Data Engineer - InfrastructureIMC · Chicago, United States · 2026-08-05
- Solutions Integration Engineer IVSamsara · Remote - Austin; Remote - CA; Remote - Chicago; Remote - Dallas; Remote - Houston; Remote - Seattle · 2026-08-04
- Senior Forward Deployed Engineerproject44 · Chicago · 2026-08-04
- Sr. Software Engineer I, Evaluation Services (Scala)NinjaTrader · Chicago or Remote* · 2026-07-31
- Solutions Architect - Financial Services (Banking and Payments) Databricks · Atlanta, Georgia; Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; New York City, New York · 2026-07-27
- Sr. Data EngineerNinjaTrader · Chicago or Remote* · 2026-06-24
- AI/ML EngineerChime Financial, Inc · Chicago, IL, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA · 2026-06-08
- Senior Database Reliability Engineer (DBRE)Okta · Bellevue, Washington; Chicago, Illinois; New York, New York; San Francisco, California; Washington, DC · 2026-05-05
- Principal Software Engineer, Trading SystemsNinjaTrader · Chicago · 2025-06-30
- Data EngineerIMC · Chicago, United States · 2025-06-10
- Trading Engineer - StrategyIMC · Chicago, United States · 2025-01-15
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