Kooe Private Limited
Confluent Flink Engineer
India
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- 26 Sept 2026
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Job Title: Confluent Flink Engineer
- Experience: 6+ Years
- Location: Remote
- Shift Timings: 2:00 PM – 11:00 PM IST
Role Overview
We are seeking an experienced Confluent Flink Engineer with strong expertise in real-time data streaming, event-driven architectures, and large-scale distributed systems. The ideal candidate should have hands-on experience with Apache Flink, Confluent Kafka, Kafka Streams, and streaming ETL pipelines , along with a strong understanding of cloud-native data processing solutions.
The role involves designing, developing, and optimizing real-time streaming applications that process high-volume data efficiently while ensuring scalability, fault tolerance, and performance.
Key ResponsibilitiesStream Processing & Data Engineering
Design, develop, and maintain real-time data processing applications using Apache Flink.
Build and manage large-scale streaming ETL pipelines.
Develop event-driven architectures using Confluent Kafka and Kafka Streams.
Implement real-time data transformation, aggregation, enrichment, and analytics workflows.
Kafka & Confluent Platform
Configure and manage Confluent Kafka environments.
Work with Kafka Connect, Schema Registry, and other Confluent Platform components.
Design efficient topic structures, partitioning strategies, and consumer group architectures.
Ensure reliable event processing and message delivery.
Performance & Scalability
Optimize Flink jobs for performance, throughput, and resource utilization.
Implement checkpointing, state management, and fault-tolerant processing strategies.
Monitor and troubleshoot streaming applications and data pipelines.
Ensure scalability and high availability of streaming platforms.
Cloud & DevOps
Deploy and manage streaming workloads on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Participate in CI/CD pipeline implementation and automation.
Collaborate with DevOps teams to improve deployment, monitoring, and operational practices.
Collaboration
Work closely with Data Engineers, Architects, Product Teams, and Business Stakeholders.
Participate in architecture discussions and technical design reviews.
Contribute to best practices, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
Required Skills & Experience
6+ years of software engineering or data engineering experience.
Strong hands-on experience with Apache Flink.
Extensive experience with Confluent Kafka and Kafka Streams.
Strong understanding of real-time streaming and event-driven architectures.
Experience with distributed systems and large-scale data processing.
Proficiency in Java, Scala, or Python.
Experience building and managing streaming ETL pipelines.
Strong knowledge of:
Kafka Connect
Schema Registry
Confluent Platform Components
Strong understanding of:
Data Partitioning
State Management
Checkpointing
Fault Tolerance
Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP cloud platforms.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
Preferred Skills
Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments.
Knowledge of data lake and modern data platform architectures.
Exposure to monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or Datadog.
Experience with Spark Streaming or other stream processing technologies.
Key Competencies
Real-Time Data Streaming
Apache Flink Development
Confluent Kafka & Kafka Streams
Distributed Systems
Event-Driven Architecture
Streaming ETL Pipelines
Cloud Data Engineering
Performance Optimization
CI/CD & DevOps
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