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AlphaSense

Posted 2 days ago

Principal Engineer, Data Platform

AlphaSense

Remote - United States

principal
Full-time
English
$246K – $339K / year
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OpenRouter

Posted 4 days ago

Software Engineer, Money Platform

OpenRouter

Remote (US)

Full-time
English
$215K – $285K / year
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Snowflake

Posted 5 days ago

Senior Solution Engineer

Snowflake

US-NC-Remote

senior
Full-time
English
$165K – $217K / year
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Runpod

Posted 6 days ago

Senior Software Development Engineer in Test

Runpod

Remote - USA

senior
Full-time
English
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ClickHouse

Posted 1 week ago

Senior Technical Customer Support Engineer - India

ClickHouse

India

senior
Full-time
English
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Pinecone

Posted 1 week ago

Full-Stack Software Engineer, Experience

Pinecone

New York City

Full-time
English
$165K – $190K / year
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Harvey

Posted 1 week ago

Staff Software Engineer, Backend Platform

Harvey

San Francisco

staff
Full-time
English
$231K – $325K / year
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Parloa

Posted 2 weeks ago

Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering

Parloa

Berlin Office; London Office; Munich Office; Remotely in Germany; Remotely in the UK

Full-time
English
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HiddenLayer

Posted 2 weeks ago

Platform Engineer

HiddenLayer

Remote- US

Full-time
English
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AlphaSense

Posted 2 weeks ago

Staff QE

AlphaSense

Remote - United States

staff
Full-time
English
$148K – $204K / year
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Role guide

What to expect in remote Kafka jobs

Apache Kafka is the backbone of real-time data infrastructure at AI companies. Remote Kafka jobs involve building event streaming pipelines, designing topic architectures, and integrating Kafka with ML feature stores and streaming ML inference systems. Engineers who combine Kafka expertise with Python and ML pipeline knowledge are particularly in demand.

What you'll work on

  • Build real-time ML feature computation pipelines using Kafka Streams or ksqlDB
  • Design event-driven architectures that trigger ML inference at scale
  • Develop Kafka connectors to move data between databases and ML platforms
  • Implement exactly-once processing for financial or safety-critical AI systems

What companies look for

  • Kafka topic design — partitioning, retention, replication factor
  • Consumer group management and offset handling for reliable processing
  • Kafka Streams or ksqlDB for stream processing application development

Frequently asked questions

What remote Kafka jobs are available at AI companies?

Real-time data engineering and ML infrastructure roles where Kafka manages event streams. Most require Python alongside Kafka expertise and cloud platform (AWS MSK, Confluent Cloud) experience.

Do Kafka engineers need Spark knowledge for AI roles?

Often yes — particularly for roles combining batch and streaming processing. The Spark + Kafka combination is common in AI companies that need both real-time features and historical batch training data.

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