This role is for one of the Weekday's clients

? Chennai (On-site) | ? Full-time | ? 3–6 years

We are building a data-intensive enterprise platform where near real-time ingestion (1-minute latency) is a core product requirement. As a Product Engineer focused on Kafka and streaming systems, you will own and scale the ingestion layer that powers critical production workflows.

This role demands strong hands-on expertise in Kafka, deep ownership of streaming pipelines, and the ability to build highly reliable, low-latency systems.

Key Responsibilities

- Design, build, and own Kafka-based streaming and ingestion pipelines
- Architect Kafka topics, partitions, schemas, and consumer groups for scale and reliability
- Ensure consistent sub-minute ingestion SLAs across production systems
- Handle message ordering, retries, back-pressure, and fault tolerance
- Monitor and optimize lag, throughput, and overall pipeline stability
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues in high-throughput environments

Required Skills & Experience

- Strong,



hands-on experience with Apache Kafka in production environments
- Proven ownership of end-to-end streaming or ingestion systems
- Deep understanding of Kafka internals, including brokers, partitions, replication, and consumers
- Experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems
- High ownership mindset with strong execution and problem-solving skills

Good to Have

- Backend development experience in Golang or Java
- Experience with schema management, monitoring, and performance tuning
- Exposure to data-heavy or enterprise-scale platforms

Why This Role

- Ownership of a mission-critical ingestion layer
- Direct impact on core product performance and differentiation
- Chance to work in a small, high-ownership engineering team

Skills

Apache Kafka · Streaming Systems · Distributed Systems · Data Ingestion · Golang · Java · High-Throughput Systems

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