Hiring: Sr. Software Engineer Data Streaming Systems Company: Paramount Location: Burbank, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 11:38:54 Employment Type: Contract / On-site Target Skills & Keywords : AWS, CI/CD, Docker, Event-Driven, Flink, GCP, Java, Kafka, Kubernetes, Microservices, Performance Testing, Product Management, Spring, Systems Design About the job Required Skills: •Design & Build Real-Time Streaming Applications •Develop high-throughput, low-latency streaming applications using Java and Kafka. •Design event-driven microservices that process, enrich, and route real-time data at scale. •Implement reactive, non-blocking architectures to support high concurrency and resilience. Create reusable streaming frameworks and libraries. These will help improve engineering efficiency and standardization across the platform. •Design and optimize distributed streaming architectures. You will work with Kafka topics, partitioning strategies, consumer groups, schema management, and event lifecycle patterns. •Help make architecture decisions for the whole platform. This includes scalability, resiliency, high availability, disaster recovery, and deployments across multiple regions. •Drive best practices around event modeling, schema evolution, idempotency, replayability, and data consistency across streaming systems. •Build and optimize horizontally scalable services deployed within Kubernetes-based cloud environments. Qualifications: •Demonstrated capacity to take ownership of complex technical work and deliver reliable solutions autonomously. •Willingness to mentor junior engineers and contribute to team engineering standards. •Strong communication and collaboration skills across engineering and product teams. •Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field; advanced degree preferred. Compensation: •Competitive benefits and rewards package Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!