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Kafka jobs on Hacker News - Who is hiring, and how demand trends

How demand for Kafka trended in Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' posts since 2011: a live monthly mention chart in share and raw counts, plus the real job postings behind every bar.

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Postings mentioning it
2,192
This month (May 2026)
4
Peak month
Aug 2021 (41)
Mention remote
41%
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Job postings

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Monthly Kafka job postings in the Hacker News Who is hiring? thread, one bar per calendar month since 2011. Narrow the window, add another skill to compare, and click any month to read the postings behind the bar.

Kafka job postings for May 2026

  1. user3939382 · hiring in May 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Vornoy | Remote (US) | Full-time | Software Engineer | $90k-$110k We aggregate marketing and financial data into dashboards. Heavy backend focus on ETL, data pipeline, modeling, and normalization. Front end is straight forward React. Looking for skills in Python, React, FastAPI,…

  2. stonith · hiring in May 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Aptira | Fully Remote AUS NZ | Full-time | Senior SRE We're an Australian consulting company currently building out a multi region baremetal Kubernetes cluster for a client experiencing explosive growth and looking for SREs to help keep it running. At the base: Kata Containers,…

  3. tiffsaw · hiring in May 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    Fold | Remote (US Only) | Senior Back End Engineer | Full-time Fold is a publicly listed bitcoin financial services company building the tools people need to earn, buy, sell and live on Bitcoin. We're looking for a Senior BE Engineer to help build the financial infrastructure…

Some popular Kafka job postings

The Kafka job postings that drew the most discussion in 2026.

  1. lars_francke · hiring in Apr 2026 · 3 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    Stackable | Product Engineer - Web & UI | Remote (Germany UK) | ~20 people | Full or part-time We build an open source data platform on Kubernetes. The product (Stackable Data Platform - SDP) bundles 12+ open source data tools (Trino, Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, Apache…

  2. fiiico · hiring in Jan 2026 · 1 reply · read the thread · view on HN

    Matcha.fm | Full-stack Software Engineer | $140K–$290K + Equity | REMOTE (US Canada) Hiring multiple Full-stack Software Engineers We're building AI agent systems that automate complex multi-step workflows. Ship production code fast, own projects end-to-end. Looking for 5+ years…

  3. Ckayler · hiring in Feb 2026 · 1 reply · read the thread · view on HN

    Staff Principal Product, Backend, Distributed Systems Engineers @Artemis in NYC Hiring 7+yrs Senior or Staff Engineers who want to be founding members at our Stealth AI-security startup (seed $15M). Stack: Python Node Rust, React TS, Kafka, ClickHouse, AWS. Ship end-to-end:…

  4. poeticsilence · hiring in Feb 2026 · 1 reply · read the thread · view on HN

    Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: OK Willing to Relocate: No Programming Languages: Ruby, Scala, Javascript, Python, TypeScript, Haskell, Scheme Programming Strengths: Data Structures and Algorithms, Data Engineering, Programming Language Theory, Type Theory, No-Code,…

  5. pablo_pi · hiring in Feb 2026 · 1 reply · read the thread · view on HN

    Location: Italy Remote: yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Rust, python, golang, kubernetes, terraform, kafka, kafka-connect, debezium, ArgoCD, typescript, AWS Résumé CV: Can email it. Email: pauliyobo@gmail.com github: https: github.com pauliyobo I'm a backend engineer…

What the Kafka hiring trend shows

This page charts how often Kafka appears in the monthly Hacker News 'Who is hiring?' thread, one bar per calendar month across the whole history. Switch between share mode - Kafka's slice of the market each month - and raw counts for absolute hiring volume, narrow the window to the last year, 5 or 10 years, and click any month to read the actual postings that mention Kafka: the companies, the seniority, and the rest of the stack they ask for.

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