Confluent Kafka & Flink Infrastructure Engineer

State Farm•Dunwoody, GA

12h•Hybrid

About The Position

Being good neighbors – helping people, investing in our communities, and making the world a better place – is who we are at State Farm. It is at the core of how we operate and the reason for our success. Come join a #1 team and do some good! Help build and operate the Event Hub platform that enables event-driven capabilities across the enterprise. In this role, you will own the underlying Confluent Kafka and Apache Flink infrastructure, ensuring it is production-grade, highly available, scalable, and resilient, with robust disaster recovery.

Requirements

Hands-on production experience administering Apache Kafka or Confluent Platform (cluster administration, security, topic management, performance tuning).
Experience operating Apache Flink (or similar streaming frameworks) at the infrastructure level (checkpointing and state management).
Strong IaC experience and AWS familiarity (e.g., MSK/EC2/EKS, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3).
Proven experience with HA/DR and reliability practices (SLA/SLO ownership, incident response, root-cause analysis).
Knowledge of security and networking patterns for distributed systems.
Experience integrating infrastructure changes into CI/CD with safe deployment and rollback.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Confluent Cloud, container orchestration (e.g., EKS/ROSA), OpenTelemetry/distributed tracing, or GitOps.
Exposure to infrastructure considerations for agentic/AI-driven workloads.

Responsibilities

Provision, configure, and manage Confluent Kafka (brokers, topics/partitions, ACLs, schema registry) and enforce platform governance standards (retention, quotas, security).
Operate Apache Flink infrastructure (job/task managers, checkpointing, state backend) and support runtime availability and performance.
Design and maintain high availability (AZ/region) and disaster recovery plans, including failover testing and runbooks.
Use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and automation to deliver reproducible, auditable infrastructure and support infrastructure CI/CD.
Own observability and security for Kafka/Flink (monitoring/alerting/runbooks, encryption, IAM/VPC/network isolation, certificate and access management).
Partner with software teams to align standards, support onboarding, and document architecture and operational procedures.

Benefits

Compensation is based on our standard 38:45-hour work week.
Potential starting salary range: $95,800.00 - $140,000.00
Starting salary will be based on skills, background, and experience
High end of the range limited to applicants with significant relevant experience
Potential yearly incentive pay up to 18% of base salary
Hybrid Work arrangement: A "Hybrid" position means selected candidates will be assigned to a facility and will spend some time working both in the office and from their home.
State Farm pays most of your healthcare premium, and we offer multiple healthcare plan options, including a high deductible plan.
All medical plans provide 100% coverage for in-network preventative care, AND you and your family have access to vision, dental, telemedicine, 24/7 mental health professionals, and much more!
Take advantage of educational benefits like industry leading training programs, top-notch tuition assistance programs, employee resource groups, and mentoring.
Fertility/IVF/adoption assistance, college coaching, national discount programs, interactive monthly financial workshops, free financial coaching, and more.
You can also start a savings account or consider financing through our State Farm Federal Credit Union!
Generous time off policies designed so you can plan around holidays, family events, volunteering, or just to take a relaxing day off.
Opportunity to initially earn up to 20 days annually plus parental leave, paid holidays, celebration day, life leave (40 hours/year), bereavement leave, and community service/education support days.
Matching Gift Program, Good Neighbor Grant Program, and the Employee Assistance Fund.
Plan for retirement using free financial advisors and a 401(k) plan with company contributions of up to 7% of your salary.