Data Engineer II (Kafka/Flink)

Location: United States, Aliso Viejo, California. The role may be subject to a hybrid working policy.

Base pay range: $150,100–$225,100 USD per year, with potential bonus eligibility.

Company

Interactive entertainment and technology business developing hardware, network services, and cloud streaming experiences for the hirify.global brand.

What you will do

• Design and implement high-throughput middleware and backend systems.
• Develop and maintain stateful and stateless Flink stream-processing jobs and scalable ETL pipelines.
• Optimize data pipeline performance, reliability, monitoring, and scalability.
• Support migration from on-premises Kafka to new cloud technologies.
• Contribute to architectural decisions for the cloud streaming data platform.
• Collaborate with Business Intelligence and product teams to convert data into actionable business insights.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of software development and backend engineering experience with high-throughput, concurrent, highly available, and fault-tolerant systems.
• Proficiency in Kotlin, Scala, or Java, along with Python; experience with Apache Kafka, Flink, Spark, and SQL.
• Experience with ETL, stream processing, real-time pipelines, batch processing, Git, and CI/CD.
• Knowledge of REST, JSON, gRPC, WebSockets, Avro, Protobuf, functional and object-oriented programming, and TDD.
• Ability to monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and collaborate with geographically distributed teams.

Nice to have

• Enterprise-scale AWS experience, including OpenSearch, MSK, and EKS.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and cloud deployment technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a distributed team environment across time zones and communication channels.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Matching 401(k), paid time off, and a wellness program.
• Employee discounts on products and potential bonus eligibility.
• Background checks are conducted at the offer stage.