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Applications closedDravix Studio
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New York, United States (UTC-5)
The models you'll help ship affect where an ad lands in thousands of podcast episodes every week. Insert an ad mid-sentence and listeners skip it — an...
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New York, United States (UTC-5)
We're building the next generation of AI-powered highlight tools for broadcasters who need clips ready within minutes of a big play, not hours. Our cu...
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Denver, United States (UTC-7)
As a fully async team spread across nine time zones, we believe great engineers can build meaningful things without daily standups getting in the way....
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Denver, United States (UTC-7)
Spark, Kafka, and AWS are the backbone of the streaming pipelines that keep our factory floor dashboards live. If you know how to turn machine telemet...
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Los Angeles, United States (UTC-8)
Kafka, Spark, and Kubernetes are what we build on every day. If duplicate event storms in a distributed system sound like a fun problem, keep reading....
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UTC (UTC+0)
As a fully async team spread across nine time zones, we believe great infrastructure engineers ship reliable systems without needing to be in the same...
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Los Angeles, United States (UTC-8)
Airflow, Spark, and Kafka are the backbone of every data pipeline we run at Infera Cloud. If you've ever debugged a silent pipeline failure at 2am bec...
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Chicago, United States (UTC-6)
Our clients include Fortune 500 manufacturers running production lines that lose hours every week to changeovers between product variants. Synta Cloud...
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Los Angeles, United States (UTC-8)
Airflow, Spark, and Kafka are the backbone of every data pipeline we run at Infera Cloud. If you've ever debugged a silent pipeline failure at 2am bec...
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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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