Messaging Engineer

Job Summary

Design, implement, and maintain messaging infrastructure to enable real-time data exchange. Manage message brokers and optimize systems for performance, reliability, and scalability in collaboration with development teams.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain messaging infrastructure for real-time data exchange to support business operations

Manage and support message brokers such as Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, IBM MQ, or Apache Pulsar to ensure stable message delivery

Define message topics, channels, and data schemas to structure data flow effectively

Optimize messaging systems for low latency, high reliability, and scalability to meet performance targets

Implement monitoring and alerting systems for messaging platforms to proactively detect and resolve issues

Collaborate with development teams to optimize producer and consumer performance for efficient data processing

Required competencies and certifications

Strong expertise in messaging and streaming platforms demonstrated by managing and optimizing messaging systems

Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka or similar technologies to design and operate message brokers

Experience designing real-time data pipelines using Pub/Sub architecture to enable scalable data streaming

Strong programming skills in Java, Scala, or Python to develop and maintain messaging components

Knowledge of Kafka topic design, partitioning and replication, consumer groups, offset management, and broker configuration to configure and tune messaging systems

Preferred competencies and qualifications

Experience working in Industrial IoT or manufacturing environments to apply domain knowledge in messaging solutions

Knowledge of MQTT, AMQP, Avro, Protocol Buffers, and Schema Registry to support diverse messaging protocols and data serialization

Experience using monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana to implement observability for messaging platforms

Understanding of event-driven architectures, enterprise integrations, MES systems, and analytics platforms to align messaging infrastructure with broader IT ecosystems