Kafka jobs in Chicago

19 open roles in Chicago asking for Kafka, at 10 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: NinjaTrader (4), Braze (3), IMC (3), project44 (3), Adyen (1), Chime Financial, Inc (1), Confluent (1), Databricks (1) and others.

What Kafka roles in Chicago keep asking for: Kubernetes (63%), Python (58%), Observability (53%), GCP (42%), Machine learning (42%), SQL (42%), Java (37%) — counted across the newest postings here.

Kafka jobs elsewhere

Senior Software Engineer IBraze · Chicago · 2026-09-23
Senior Software Engineerproject44 · Chicago · 2026-09-21
Senior Software Engineer II, Full-StackBraze · Chicago · 2026-09-16
Staff Machine Learning Engineer, ML PlatformBraze · Chicago · 2026-09-16
Senior Software Engineer - DevOps/SREproject44 · Chicago · 2026-09-11
Engineering Manager - IssuingAdyen · Chicago · 2026-08-24
Sr. Software Engineer II, Platform/APINinjaTrader · Chicago or Remote* · 2026-08-19
Data Engineer - InfrastructureIMC · Chicago, United States · 2026-08-05
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 · Chicago, Illinois; Dallas, Texas; Denver, Colorado; Los Angeles, California; Portland, Oregon; San Francisco, California; Seattle, Washington · 2026-07-27
Senior AI Delivery EngineerQube Research & Technologies · New York, Chicago · 2026-07-09
Sr. Data EngineerNinjaTrader · Chicago or Remote* · 2026-06-24
Senior AI/ML EngineerChime Financial, Inc · Chicago, IL, USA; New York, NY, USA; San Francisco, CA, USA · 2026-06-08
Senior Software Engineer IIConfluent · Boston, Massachusetts, Chicago, Illinois, Remote, North Carolina, Dallas, Texas, Portland, Oregon · 2026-05-07
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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