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updated august 2026

Kafka Jobs in Data Science (August 2026)

498 open data science, ML and AI roles ask for Kafka as of August 2026, across 229 hiring companies — 140 of them remote-friendly. Capital One is hiring the most, with 38 openings. New York is the busiest market. Every listing is scraped daily from the employer's own careers page or ATS, and links straight to the official application.

Who’s hiring for Kafka

CO
Capital One38
S
Super15
M
Mastercard10
W
Wise9
P
Preply8
R
Reddit8
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Senior Data Engineer, CX

NICE·Australia·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer
AWSPythonSparkKafka
6d ago→
C

Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning Platform

Chime·San Francisco, CA, USA·On-site
Senior·MLOps
PythonAWSKubernetesDocker
6d ago→
Y

Senior Data Engineer

Yodeck·Athens, Attica, Greece·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer
SQLPythonSparkAirflow
6d ago→
O

Staff/Senior Staff Web3 Big Data Engineer

OKX·Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR; Singapore, Singapore·On-site
Staff·Data Engineer
PythonSparkKafkaHadoop
6d ago→
TI

Software Engineer: Applied NLP/ML and Data Systems (Mid-career / Senior)

Theia Insights·Cambridge, England, United Kingdom; London, England, United Kingdom·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer
PythonSparkAirflowSQL
6d ago→
CO

Lead Data Engineer

Capital One·Chicago, IL; McLean, VA·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer·$179k – $205k
PythonSQLAWSMicroservices
6d ago→
E

Staff Data Engineer (f/m/d)_metrify

Enpal·Berlin·On-site
Staff·Data Engineer
PythonSQLAWSKafka
6d ago→
X

Sr. IT Data Engineer

xAI·Palo Alto, California·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer·$172k – $258k
PythonSQLAirflowSpark
6d ago→
TI

Software Engineer: Applied NLP/ML and Data Systems (Mid-career / Senior)

Theia Insights·Cambridge, England, United Kingdom; London, England, United Kingdom·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer
PythonSparkAirflowSQL
6d ago→
V

Data Engineering Manager

Verve·Dublin, Ireland·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer
SparkHadoopAWSSQL
6d ago→
ST

Engineering Manager, Applied AI & Machine Learning Engineering

SPD Technology·Germany; Poland; Portugal; Romania; +2 more·Hybrid
Senior·Other
PythonMachine learningDeep learningTensorFlow
6d ago→
X

Software Engineer - X Data Engineering

xAI·Palo Alto, California·On-site
Mid·Data Engineer·$125k – $400k
PythonSQLSparkAWS
6d ago→
R

Senior Software Engineer, Data Engineering

Robinhood·Menlo Park, CA·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer·$196k – $230k
PythonSQLSparkAirflow
6d ago→
CA

Principal Data Scientist

Crate and Barrel·Remote - Illinois·Remote
Staff·Data Scientist
PythonSQLMachine learningDeep learning
6d ago→
D

Senior Software Architect — Agentic AI Engineering

Distro·Noida, Uttar Pradesh·On-site
Staff·AI Engineer
Agentic ai architectureScalable saas designMulti disciplinary collaborationPrototype development
6d ago→
O

Data Engineer

OpenGov·India | Pune·On-site
Mid·Data Engineer
PythonSQLSparkAWS
6d ago→
S

Senior Data Scientist - MTS (m/f/d)

Sportradar·Ljubljana, Slovenia·On-site
Senior·Data Scientist
PythonSQLMachine learningPredictive modeling
6d ago→
G

Senior Data Engineer

Grab·Jakarta, Indonesia·Hybrid
Senior·Data Engineer
AWSETLBatchReal-time
1w ago→
D

Senior Data Engineer, Unified Platform

DRW·Chicago, New York City·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer·$200k – $250k
Big dataSparkHadoopPython
1w ago→
D

Software Engineer Intern (Data Engineering)

DRW·Singapore·On-site
Junior·Data Engineer
PythonSQLETLAirflow
1w ago→
G

Senior Machine Learning Engineer, MLE

Grab·Beijing, China·On-site
Senior·ML Engineer
Machine learningDeep learningComputer visionGeospatial analysis
1w ago→
T

Manager, Data Engineering

Toyota·Plano, Texas·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer
PythonSQLSparkAirflow
1w ago→
W

Lead Data Scientist - Treasury Markets Quant

Wise·London, United Kingdom·Hybrid
Senior·Data Scientist
Quantitative developerFx pricingFx risk managementFx operations
1w ago→
F

Senior Staff Machine Learning Platform Engineer

Faire·Remote - US; San Francisco, CA·Remote
Staff·ML Engineer·$295k – $406k
PythonKubernetesDockerAWS
1w ago→
NL

Data Engineer (BigQuery / Cloud Data Platforms)

Northramp LLC·Washington, District of Columbia, United States·Hybrid
Mid·Data Engineer
BigQueryCloud data platformsData pipelinesAnalytics-ready data
1w ago→
S

Senior Data Engineer

Shein·San Diego·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer·$123k – $178k
Big dataPythonSparkHadoop
1w ago→
D

Equities Data Engineer

DRW·Chicago, New York·On-site
Mid·Data Engineer·$175k – $200k
PythonSQLSparkKafka
1w ago→
A

Engineering Manager in Back End - LLM (Gurugram based relocation provided)

Agoda·Gurugram·On-site
Senior·AI Engineer
PythonJavaKubernetesDocker
1w ago→
M

Senior Data Engineer

Mastercard·Copenhagen, Denmark (Arne Jacobsens)·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer
Big dataData warehousingSparkKafka
1w ago→
E

Senior Data Engineer (f/m/d)_metrify

Enpal·Berlin·Hybrid
Senior·Data Engineer
Data engineerMachine learningBig dataPython
1w ago→
N

Data Engineer -- Regulatory Reporting & Portfolio Intelligence

Nium·Bangalore·On-site
Mid·Data Engineer
Big dataSparkHadoopPython
1w ago→
AI

Data Engineer

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd·Singapore, Singapore, Singapore·On-site
Mid·Data Engineer
Big dataPythonSparkHadoop
1w ago→
X

Staff Data Engineer

Xometry·North Bethesda, MD·On-site
Staff·Data Engineer·$180k – $200k
Big dataData architectureScalable pipelinesData platform
1w ago→
B

Director, Data Engineering

Blackrock·Gurugram, India·Hybrid
Senior·Data Engineer
Big dataData warehousingETLMLOps
1w ago→
BS

Data Engineer

Blackline Safety·TELECOMMUTE, Canada·Hybrid
Mid·Data Engineer
Big dataPythonAWSSpark
1w ago→
C

Data Engineer III

Crunchyroll·Los Angeles, California, United States; San Francisco, CA, United States·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer·$148k – $185k
Big dataPythonSparkHadoop
1w ago→
CO

Senior Lead Data Engineer

Capital One·Chicago, IL·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer·$209k – $239k
PythonSQLSparkKafka
1w ago→
T

Senior Data Engineer

Taskrabbit·San Francisco, California, United States·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer·$130k – $170k
Big dataPythonSparkHadoop
1w ago→
X

Staff Data Engineer

Xometry·Waltham, MA·On-site
Staff·Data Engineer·$180k – $200k
Big dataData architectureScalable pipelinesData platform
1w ago→
TA

Senior Data Engineer

Tiger Analytics Inc.·Richmond, Virginia, United States·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer
PythonSQLCloud computingDistributed data processing
1w ago→
AI

Data Engineer

Activate Interactive Pte Ltd·Singapore, Singapore, Singapore·On-site
Mid·Data Engineer
PythonSQLSparkAirflow
1w ago→
3

Lead Data Engineer

3M·Remote - Minnesota·Remote
Mid·Data Engineer·$188k – $230k
Ai/ml data pipelinesFeature engineeringScalable data architecturesAI
1w ago→
BC

Data Engineer

BMO Capital Markets·Toronto, ON, CAN·Hybrid
Mid·Data Engineer·$62k – $114k
PythonSQLSparkAirflow
1w ago→
BC

Data Engineer

BMO Capital Markets·Toronto, ON, CAN·Hybrid
Mid·Data Engineer·$62k – $114k
SQLPythonSparkAirflow
1w ago→
BO

Sr Data Engineer

Bank of America·Charlotte; New York·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer·$125k – $145k
Big dataPythonSparkHadoop
1w ago→
S

Director, Data Engineering

Salesforce·India - Hyderabad·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer
PythonSQLSparkAirflow
1w ago→
A

Senior Data Engineer

AppDirect·Montreal, Canada·On-site
Senior·Data Engineer·$100k – $135k
LakehouseSemantic layerData governanceETL
1w ago→
D

Staff Data Engineer - Integrations

Dragos·United States·Hybrid
Staff·Data Engineer
PythonSQLAirflowdbt
1w ago→
W

Senior Machine Learning Engineer I - FinCrime

Wise·London, United Kingdom·On-site
Senior·ML Engineer·$88k – $111k
Machine learningData labelingStatisticsMonitoring
1w ago→
S

Staff Data Engineer

SanDisk·Bengaluru, KA, India·On-site
Staff·Data Engineer
AzureSparkSpark sqlDatabricks
1w ago→

Kafka jobs by city

New York (42)London (31)McLean (31)Bengaluru (27)San Francisco (27)Richmond (18)

Skills often asked for alongside Kafka

Python (455)Spark (390)SQL (389)AWS (344)Data Pipelines (336)AI (333)Airflow (300)Data Engineering (288)

Other skills in demand

Machine LearningData ScienceStatisticsLLMsSoftware EngineeringData VisualizationPyTorchData AnalysisCloud ComputingAgentic AIDeep LearningData Quality
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Methodology: live data science, ML and AI listings tagged Kafka. A job is tagged when its description names the skill, or when our enrichment step identifies it from the role. Counts are live and change with the daily scrape.