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