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Posted 1 month ago
Applications closedAltrix Systems
On-site
New York, United States (UTC-5)
We serve enterprise clients whose knowledge graphs quietly go stale the moment source systems change upstream, and nobody notices until a query return...
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Posted 2 months ago
Applications closedLyrex Data
Remote
Los Angeles, United States (UTC-8)
Have you ever wanted to build the platform other data teams build on top of, instead of shipping one more one-off pipeline? Our data mesh architecture...
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Posted 2 months ago
Applications closedGradrix Works
Remote
New York, United States (UTC-5)
We just signed our largest banking client yet, and their crypto exposure desk needs mixing-pattern detection live before their next regulatory exam. W...
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Posted 2 months ago
Applications closedInfera Cloud
Remote
UTC (UTC+0)
Have you ever watched a streaming join silently fall over because one key had ten thousand times more events than every other key? We build the real-t...
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Applications closedGradrix Works
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New York, United States (UTC-5)
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Applications closedInfera Cloud
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Have you ever watched a streaming join silently fall over because one key had ten thousand times more events than every other key? We build the real-t...
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Posted 3 months ago
Applications closedQuelion Cloud
Remote
London, United Kingdom (UTC+0)
You'll be the fourth search relevance engineer on a team of eleven, working directly with our Head of Search and two applied scientists who obsess ove...
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Posted 3 months ago
Applications closedUelvex Cloud
Remote
Chicago, United States (UTC-6)
You'll be the fourth engineer on a team of nine, and we don't care where you work from as long as the work gets done and communication stays clear. Ou...
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Posted 3 months ago
Applications closedOrvix Works
Remote
Chicago, United States (UTC-6)
Our mission is to keep supply chains trustworthy for the manufacturers and retailers who depend on accurate freight documentation to run their operati...
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Posted 3 months ago
Applications closedDelven Labs
Remote
New York, United States (UTC-5)
You'll be the third detection engineer on a team of 11, working directly with our SOC analysts who triage alerts around the clock. Our stack is Python...
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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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