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Posted 5 months ago
Applications closedOceanAI
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New York, United States (UTC-5)
We operate a decentralised exchange protocol. $1.4 billion in total value locked, around $200 million in daily trading volume on busy days. We are inc...
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Posted 6 months ago
Applications closedAxiom Labs
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Paris, France (UTC+1)
We run one of the largest remittance corridors between Europe and West Africa. We process transfers from 19 European countries to 11 African markets....
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Posted 6 months ago
Applications closedUrbanPulse Analytics
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Chicago, United States (UTC-6)
We are a two-sided marketplace for skilled trades — connecting homeowners with vetted electricians, plumbers, and HVAC technicians in 38 metropolitan...
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Posted 6 months ago
Applications closedCortex AI
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Berlin, Germany (UTC+1)
We are a payments infrastructure company. We process card-not-present transactions for 3,800 merchants across Europe, with a combined volume of €2.1 b...
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Posted 6 months ago
Applications closedPolyLingua AI
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London, United Kingdom (UTC+0)
We are a UK telecommunications infrastructure company. We operate over 22,000 base station sites and carry a significant share of national mobile data...
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Posted 6 months ago
Applications closedPonto AI
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Los Angeles, United States (UTC-8)
We are a mid-size games studio with 310 staff and three live service titles. Our largest title has 4.8 million monthly active players across PC and co...
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Posted 6 months ago
Applications closedAlphaion
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8 sources → BigQuery, near real-time. Sources: Stripe, Salesforce, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Google Analytics, Zendesk, Shopify, internal API. All 8 need pro...
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Posted 6 months ago
Applications closedTerraVision AI
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London, United Kingdom (UTC+0)
Our analytics stack is a combination of good decisions made three years ago, legacy choices that made sense at the time, and a few things we built und...
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Posted 6 months ago
Applications closedNordic NLP
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We run a large Hadoop cluster that's expensive, slow to maintain, and blocking our data team. We want to migrate our batch processing workloads to Dat...
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Posted 7 months ago
Applications closedCognia
Remote (US-friendly timezone)
We process 500 million events per day. Stack is Kafka + Spark on AWS, orchestrated via Airflow. It's held up, but end-to-end latency on our critical e...
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Role guide
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 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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