Kafka jobs in the United States

651 open roles in the United States asking for Kafka, at 174 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: SpaceX (85), Databricks (27), Amazon Web Services, Inc. (26), Jobgether (17), Braze (15), Clickhouse (14), Twilio (12), Confluent (10) and others.

What Kafka roles in the United States keep asking for: Python (58%), Kubernetes (55%), AWS (54%), Java (49%), Observability (43%), SQL (37%), System design (36%) — counted across the newest postings here.

Kafka jobs elsewhere

Principal Software Engineer, Cloud ArchitectureSaviynt · Milpitas, California · 2026-01-23
Software Engineer - InsightsPlanetScale · San Francisco Bay Area or Remote · 2026-01-16
Principal Cloud Operations Engineer (10166)Extremenetworks · San Jose, California, United States · 2026-01-13
Senior Software Engineer, Data EngineeringRockstar Games · Manhattan, New York, United States · 2026-01-05
Senior Software Engineer, Data EngineeringRockstar Games · Carlsbad, California, United States · 2026-01-05
Senior Software Engineer, Data EngineeringRockstar Games · Andover, Massachusetts, United States · 2026-01-05
Senior Software Engineer (EAA)Coinbase · Remote - USA · 2025-12-19
Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureOtter.ai · Mountain View, CA · 2025-12-19
Infrastructure EngineerKalshi · New York Office · 2025-11-24
Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)Invisible Technologies · New York - Hybrid; San Francisco Bay Area - Hybrid · 2025-11-11
Senior Solutions Architect (Pre-Sales)MongoDB · San Francisco · 2025-10-31
Senior Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)Invisible Technologies · New York - Hybrid; San Francisco Bay Area - Hybrid · 2025-10-22
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)Invisible Technologies · New York - Hybrid; San Francisco Bay Area - Hybrid · 2025-10-22
Senior Machine Learning EngineerReddit · Remote - United States · 2025-08-14
Senior Software Engineer, AdsReddit · Remote - United States · 2025-08-13
Senior Software EngineerSeatGeek · Remote - United States · 2025-07-15
Senior Software EngineerSeatGeek · New York, New York · 2025-07-15
Software Engineer - KafkaApplied · Sunnyvale · 2025-07-09
Principal Software Engineer, Trading SystemsNinjaTrader · Chicago · 2025-06-30
Software Engineer - TelematicsApplied · Sunnyvale · 2025-06-21
Data EngineerIMC · Chicago, United States · 2025-06-10
Senior Software Engineer - Together Cloud PlatformTogether AI · San Francisco · 2025-06-04
Software Engineer - Data InfrastructureFigma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States · 2025-06-02
Software Engineer - Distributed SystemsFigma · San Francisco, CA • New York, NY • United States · 2025-06-02
Software EngineerJustworks · New York, New York · 2025-05-27
Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure)Otter.ai · Mountain View, CA · 2025-04-15
Senior Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure)Otter.ai · Mountain View, CA · 2025-04-15
Software Engineer, Backend (Infrastructure)Otter.ai · Mountain View, CA · 2025-04-15
Software Engineer, Developer ProductivityOpenai · San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Mountain View · 2025-03-27
Software Engineer, AI SafetyOpenai · San Francisco · 2025-03-17
Senior Software Engineer, Big DataZipRecruiter · Santa Monica, CA · 2025-01-17
Trading Engineer - StrategyIMC · Chicago, United States · 2025-01-15
Software Engineer, AdsReddit · Remote - United States · 2025-01-06
Software Engineer, DataKalshi · New York, New York, United States · 2024-08-14
Staff Software Engineer - BackendDatabricks · Seattle, Washington · 2024-07-03
Software Engineer, Data InfrastructureOpenai · San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Mountain View · 2024-06-27
Software Engineer, Integrity FoundationsOpenai · San Francisco · 2024-06-11
Senior Staff Engineer, Java DeveloperNagarro · Atlanta, Georgia, United States · 2023-08-10
Senior Software Engineer - BackendNextdoor · US Remote · 2023-04-07
Staff Software Engineer - BackendDatabricks · San Francisco, California · 2022-12-27
Staff Software Engineer - BackendDatabricks · Mountain View, California · 2022-12-27
Solutions Architect - Emerging EnterpriseDatabricks · United States · 2022-08-19
Solutions Architect - Emerging Enterprise (Startups) Databricks · United States · 2022-08-19
Senior Software Engineer Datadog · Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA · 2022-08-03
Software Engineer with Systems DepthDatadog · New York, New York, USA · 2022-08-02
Senior Software Engineer - Data InfrastructureApplied · Sunnyvale · 2022-07-29
Infrastructure EngineerKalshi · New York, New York, United States · 2022-06-24
Solutions Architect - Digital Native BusinessDatabricks · United States · 2022-05-17
Senior Software Engineer - Distributed SystemsDatadog · Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA · 2022-01-27
Backend Engineer, PlatformHightouch · San Francisco · 2021-03-16
Senior Software Engineer - BackendNextdoor · San Francisco, CA · 2020-02-06

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