Product Engineer - Kafka Streaming System

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
• Opportunity to work in a small, high-ownership engineering team

Skills

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