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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
2,209
This month (Oct 2026 so far)
4
Peak month
May 2018 (40)
Mention remote
41%
2,209
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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 October 2026 (so far)

  1. lizwoodfieldta · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …team you’ll see: • Python, Go, Rust, Scala • PostgreSQL, Snowflake • Kafka, Redis • Terraform, Kubernetes • ML: XGBoost, PyTorch, Feature stores, real-time scoring pipelines If you love solving complex distributed systems challenges, building customer-facing ML products, or…

  2. careers-tivly · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …writing code. Stack: Java 17+, Spring Boot, microservices, AWS, Kafka, PostgreSQL Looking for: 10+ years building and scaling distributed systems in production, and experience leading technical direction across multiple teams. Apply: tivly.com careers

  3. confusedalex · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …relatively small teams. Stack: Java, Spring Boot, Angular or React, Kafka, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes. GitLab CI CD, Gradle and Maven are a plus. We want: 2+ years with Spring Boot and Angular React, solid SQL, German at B2 or better. We offer: fully remote within Germany, 32…

  4. zecto · hiring in Oct 2026 · read the thread · view on HN

    …the future of digital government. Tech: Linux, k8s, Service Mesh, Kafka, GitLab, ArgoCD, Elastic APM, Python, C++ DevEx Eng: https: job-boards.greenhouse.io blackcanyonconsulting jobs ... Sr DevEx Eng: https: job-boards.greenhouse.io blackcanyonconsulting jobs ... Plaform Eng…

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

    …Platform - SDP) bundles 12+ open source data tools (Trino, Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, Apache Superset, etc.) and makes them work together. Right now everything is Infrastructure-as-Code only. We need someone to build a UI layer on top. No mockups, no Figma, no product roadmap…

  2. tiffsaw · hiring in Jun 2026 · 2 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    …distributed systems - Familiar with: messaging event streaming (Kafka, Pulsar) - Solid relational database and data modeling skills - Nice-to-have: fintech, payments, ledger accounting domains - Nice-to-have: event-driven architectures, CQRS, event sourcing - Nice-to-have:…

  3. jlaneve · hiring in Sep 2026 · 2 replies · read the thread · view on HN

    …a similar business model as Databricks with Spark or Confluent with Kafka. Our tech stack is primarily Go, Python, and TypeScript. The problems we work on generally center around (1) building out our commercial managed Airflow offering, (2) building a data + infra observability…

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

    …TypeScript, React, Node.js, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, AWS (ECS, RDS, Kafka, ES), Docker, Terraform. Full type safety, monorepo, 100% IaC, per-PR staging environments. Remote US Canada EU Apply: https: matcha.fm apply se

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

    …& Tools: Vue, React, Rails, Flask, Postgres, HBase, MongoDB, Kafka, Jenkins, AWS, Docker Other Skills: Leading Teams & Managing Projects, Productizing LLMs, Managing Interview Pipelines, Architecting & Implementing Greenfield Solutions, Education & Team Growth, Leading…

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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