Kafka Engineer

This one's for when you're building event-driven systems and need someone who actually knows Kafka internals. It handles the full stack: setting up Kafka Connect pipelines for change data capture, writing stream processing apps with Kafka Streams or ksqlDB, and managing Schema Registry with Avro or Protobuf. The decision framework is legitimately helpful for figuring out when to use topics versus databases, and it knows how to debug the annoying stuff like consumer lag and rebalancing storms. If you're dealing with exactly-once semantics or need to configure mTLS and ACLs properly, this beats digging through Confluent docs for the tenth time.