We are looking for a
Senior Java Software Engineer
with strong production experience building and operating
high-throughput, distributed systems
.

This role is specifically focused on engineers with
deep Apache Kafka and Kubernetes experience
. Experience limited to using Kafka as a publisher/consumer is
not sufficient
for this position.

Core Requirements
Apache Kafka — Deep Production Expertise

You must have hands-on experience
managing and operating Kafka in production
, not just developing Kafka producers and consumers.

You should have a solid understanding and practical experience with:
Kafka
clusters and brokers
Topic creation, configuration, and lifecycle management
Partitions
, partitioning strategies, and partition rebalancing
Consumer groups
, consumer rebalancing, and offset management
Replication, leaders/followers, and fault tolerance
Handling
high-throughput workloads
Kafka performance tuning and capacity considerations
Troubleshooting production Kafka issues
Consumer lag, throughput, and availability monitoring




Designing Kafka-based
event-driven architectures
Understanding failure scenarios and recovery strategies

Significant:
Candidates whose Kafka experience is primarily limited to implementing producers/consumers or consuming messages from existing topics will
not be a fit
.
Kubernetes — Solid Production Experience

You must have hands-on experience running applications in
production Kubernetes environments
.

Experience should include:
Deploying and managing applications on Kubernetes
Deployments, Pods, Services, ConfigMaps and Secrets
Resource requests/limits and scaling
Health checks and application availability
Troubleshooting failed deployments and unhealthy Pods
Understanding Kubernetes networking and service discovery
Production troubleshooting and incident handling
Experience working with Kubernetes clusters and their operational challenges

Java & Spring Boot
5+ years
of professional back

📌 Senior Java Software Engineer — Remote Contract Rajasthan (India)
🏢 MatteCurve Technologies
📍 India